Maria de Lourdes Centa

Fitoterapia popular: a busca instrumental enquanto prática terapêutica

This study is an ethno botanical and opinion-based research, whose objective is to amplify our knowledge concerning the utilization of medicinal plants by the community of Cascavel, PR, Brazil. It looks to subsidize the implantation of phytotherapies in the Brazilian public health care system. The sample corresponded to 50 families within the area pertaining to a Public Health Care Clinic, selected through proportional stratified sampling. In order to obtain the data, exploratory-descriptive research was used, collecting data through semi-structured interviews. As a result, 96% of the sampled population was observed to use medicinal plants; 271 ethno botanical references were registered, encompassing 75 ethno species; with 40 therapeutic properties related to domestic use. The use of medicinal plants is rather diffuse and the transfer of ethno botanical knowledge follows traditional community patterns, without observed blockages in this process. It was seen that medicinal plants for this community represent an important factor in their maintenance of health care conditions, being part of a preserved local knowledge.

A família e a educação sexual dos filhos: implicações para a enfermagem

OBJETIVO: Identificar como os pais vivenciam a educacao sexual de seus filhos adolescentes. METODOS: Pesquisa qualitativa descritiva exploratoria, realizada em uma escola privada do municipio de Toledo, Parana. Participaram do estudo 10 pais de alunos da 7a e 8a series. Os dados foram coletados atraves de entrevista semi-estruturada e analisados conforme o metodo do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo. RESULTADOS: Os pais fizeram algumas consideracoes sobre o modo como orientam os filhos sobre sexualidade, entre elas, a importância do dialogo e da conversa franca entre pais e filhos; a dificuldade na comunicacao entre pais e filhos; dificuldades relacionadas a educacao recebida; ensino de valores e a importância da educacao compartilhada com a escola. CONCLUSAO: Faz-se necessario um trabalho continuo de orientacao sobre sexualidade aos adolescentes e tambem as suas familias visto a diversidade e complexidade deste tema.

Resiliência: nova perspectiva na promoção da saúde da família?

This descriptive study deals with some concepts of resilience seeking to understand the concept from the viewpoint of health promotion, one of the basic principles of the Brazilian Family Health Program (FHP). Resilience appeared as a new subject in human sciences and in the health area. In human sciences, resilience means the positive capacity of an individual to construct itself coping with adversities, a dimension more attentive to social conditions. Although there is no consensus with regard to this subject, there seem to be some aspects related with Health Promotion. We emphasize the modern understanding of Health Promotion in order to illustrate some aspects associated with resilience such as the greater capacity of Man to decide about the determinants of his health condition. Given that Health Promotion is one of the attributions of the Family Health Program, we contextualized the program emphasizing the action of the health professionals in this area in relation to the subject, seeking to promote health working with resilience. The multi-professional teams of the Family Health Program represent at the same time a network of support and protection for the families, identifying possible risk factors. The emphasis given to the promotion of resilience however should not substitute the public policies for fighting the social inequality and precarious life conditions of part of the population.

Parents experience with the sexual education of their children: implications for nursing care

OBJETIVO: Identificar como os pais vivenciam a educacao sexual de seus filhos adolescentes. METODOS: Pesquisa qualitativa descritiva exploratoria, realizada em uma escola privada do municipio de Toledo, Parana. Participaram do estudo 10 pais de alunos da 7a e 8a series. Os dados foram coletados atraves de entrevista semi-estruturada e analisados conforme o metodo do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo. RESULTADOS: Os pais fizeram algumas consideracoes sobre o modo como orientam os filhos sobre sexualidade, entre elas, a importância do dialogo e da conversa franca entre pais e filhos; a dificuldade na comunicacao entre pais e filhos; dificuldades relacionadas a educacao recebida; ensino de valores e a importância da educacao compartilhada com a escola. CONCLUSAO: Faz-se necessario um trabalho continuo de orientacao sobre sexualidade aos adolescentes e tambem as suas familias visto a diversidade e complexidade deste tema.

Popular phytotherapy: the instrumental search as therapy

This study is an ethno botanical and opinion-based research, whose objective is to amplify our knowledge concerning the utilization of medicinal plants by the community of Cascavel, PR, Brazil. It looks to subsidize the implantation of phytotherapies in the Brazilian public health care system. The sample corresponded to 50 families within the area pertaining to a Public Health Care Clinic, selected through proportional stratified sampling. In order to obtain the data, exploratory-descriptive research was used, collecting data through semi-structured interviews. As a result, 96% of the sampled population was observed to use medicinal plants; 271 ethno botanical references were registered, encompassing 75 ethno species; with 40 therapeutic properties related to domestic use. The use of medicinal plants is rather diffuse and the transfer of ethno botanical knowledge follows traditional community patterns, without observed blockages in this process. It was seen that medicinal plants for this community represent an important factor in their maintenance of health care conditions, being part of a preserved local knowledge.

La familia y la educación sexual de los hijos: implicaciones para la enfermería

OBJETIVO: Identificar como os pais vivenciam a educacao sexual de seus filhos adolescentes. METODOS: Pesquisa qualitativa descritiva exploratoria, realizada em uma escola privada do municipio de Toledo, Parana. Participaram do estudo 10 pais de alunos da 7a e 8a series. Os dados foram coletados atraves de entrevista semi-estruturada e analisados conforme o metodo do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo. RESULTADOS: Os pais fizeram algumas consideracoes sobre o modo como orientam os filhos sobre sexualidade, entre elas, a importância do dialogo e da conversa franca entre pais e filhos; a dificuldade na comunicacao entre pais e filhos; dificuldades relacionadas a educacao recebida; ensino de valores e a importância da educacao compartilhada com a escola. CONCLUSAO: Faz-se necessario um trabalho continuo de orientacao sobre sexualidade aos adolescentes e tambem as suas familias visto a diversidade e complexidade deste tema.

Fitoterapia popular: la busca instrumental para el acto de la practica de la fitoterapia

This study is an ethno botanical and opinion-based research, whose objective is to amplify our knowledge concerning the utilization of medicinal plants by the community of Cascavel, PR, Brazil. It looks to subsidize the implantation of phytotherapies in the Brazilian public health care system. The sample corresponded to 50 families within the area pertaining to a Public Health Care Clinic, selected through proportional stratified sampling. In order to obtain the data, exploratory-descriptive research was used, collecting data through semi-structured interviews. As a result, 96% of the sampled population was observed to use medicinal plants; 271 ethno botanical references were registered, encompassing 75 ethno species; with 40 therapeutic properties related to domestic use. The use of medicinal plants is rather diffuse and the transfer of ethno botanical knowledge follows traditional community patterns, without observed blockages in this process. It was seen that medicinal plants for this community represent an important factor in their maintenance of health care conditions, being part of a preserved local knowledge.

OS ENFERMEIROS DOS PROGRAMAS DE SAÚDE DA FAMÍLIA E AGENTES COMUNITÁRIOS CONSTRUINDO O SER MAIS POR MEIO DOS CÍRCULOS DE CULTURA

This work was developed in a Health Comunity Center sponsored by the State of Parana and had as objective to contemplate, in conjunction with its nurses, on their experiences in Family Health and the Community Agents of Health Programs, with the purpose of to reinforce their actions and to minimize their problems. These programs, in spite of to propose the restructuring of the effective model and of being based on the Basic Operational Rule of 1996, which guarantees financial incentives differentiated to municipal district that carry it out, are having several difficulties on its implementation. To study this problem and to reach the objective of this research, the circle of culture of Freire was used, which was discussed with the nurses who work in these programs. The talks were about their experiences in these programs, and to comtemplate the definition of who are the nurses that act in these programs, their role, difficulties to accomplish their duties and directions that they believe to improve their performance. Through the development of the circle of culture, there were, as a result, information which defined the family nurse, as to enumerate their roles and difficulties, to propose strategies to implement the referred programs, and provide to the population improvement in their life quality.