Perfil sociodemográfico dos alunos do curso de formação pedagógica em educação profissional na área de saúde: enfermagem - polo Campos Gerais

Abstract

The long-distance education at the (LDE) is a process of teaching learning mediated by technologies of information and communication. The Course of Specialization of Pedagogic Formation in Professional Education in the Area of Health: nursing is offered, in the modality of LDE, by the School of Nursing of UFMG in its second group, in eight Poles at the state of Minas Gerais. The present research was developed at the Polo of Campos Gerais and it had as general objective to analyze the profile of the students of course Pedagogic Formation socialdemographic in Professional Education in the Area of Health: nursing. It is a descriptive study, traverse. The data were collected during a moment of presence and the population was constituted by the 21 enrolled and frequent students in the 2nd semester of 2011. All agreed to participate of the study signing the term of Free and Illustrious Consent. The collection of data was accomplished by the own author of the research using a questionnaire that is part of a larger project of EE/UFMG. The data were tabulated and analyzed through descriptive statistics and they supplied the results: the studied population is predominantly female (90,5%); they profess the Catholic religion 85,7%; the group is constituted basically by young adults (90,5%); most of them doesn't have children (85,7%); 61,9% are single; 71,0% have family income above three minimum wages and percentile equal is not family support; 66% have own house; all of the students possess the minimum conditions for a communication through cellular telephone and computer, but two don't possess access to the internet at the residence; 57,0% of the studied population act as nurses and 85% already exercised other function in the past. Such results allowed the reach of the looked for objective and they supplied important information for future propositions concerning themes related to long-distance education, as well as to the process of professionals' training offered by the universities.