Clic Saúde: prevenção da esquistossomose por meio das tecnologias da informação

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze an educational intervention developed by means of the convergence of information and communication technologies, while pedagogical strategy to favor the construction of knowledge regarding schistosomiasis, autonomys promotion and critical reflection, alongside students who reside in a rural area of Minas Gerais state. This was an exploratory study, developed with students in São Pedro do Jequitinhonha, a Jequitinhonha municipality district. The educational intervention was constructed with basis on the PhotoVoice technique, in semi-presence modality. The participants were invited to problematize their understandings over health and schistosomiasis on everyday life through an online forum. In onsite workshops, the students constructed photographs of their community of residence, which expressed themes discussed on the virtual space. Data were obtained by means of a semi-structured questionnaire, which was answered by the students before and right after the end of the intervention and also by and record the conversations and interactions undertaken by the participants in virtual and onsite encounters throughout the intervention. The answers given to the open questions as well as the data collected by audio/video and written record were transcribed and submitted to content analysis technique. By the data analysis it was made evident that the educational intervention has promoted a dialogical process of knowledge production by means of knowledge confrontation. It was perceived that has occurred an effort by the mediator to relate horizontally with students, something that contrasts with knowledge transmission situations. The educational intervention may have contributed to an enlargement of the understanding over community, through the perception of contradictions in the way in which life it is organized. An enlarged health concept has become more frequent in the students speech throughout the intervention. The identification of how schistosomiasis occurs in the community as well as the recognition of the economic and political aspects intrinsic to the maintenance of the disease as a local health challenge, have been present in the participants speech during and after the intervention. It is conclude that information and communication technologies have favored the dialogue, proximity and bond construction between researcher and research participants. By enabling the communication and interaction among people that do not share the same physical space in a given chronological time, such technologies inaugurate new ways of relationships amongst subjects, thus modifying the modes in which people learn and teach. The educational intervention has supported, in general, the problematization of life, health and, in a specific way, of schistosomiasis, from characteristics in which such phenomena happen in São Pedro do Jequitinhonha. The understanding of those peculiarities it is crucial to the development of actions in health care and in diseases prevention, as well as to foster the participants autonomy so they can interfere in life and health modes as they occur in their territory.