Mônica Gisele Costa Pinheiro

Theory of Social Representations: Educational Possibilities in the Development of Active Methodologies for Significant Learning*

Background: The National Curriculum Guidelines reinforce the need for training of professionals with critical and reflective skills in addition to acquiring technical skills. Those criteria directly and indirectly relate to the desired professional profile, either in graduation scenarios or in postgraduate courses. The adoption of active methodologies in classrooms contributes to the training of health professionals able to provide clinical and epidemiological responses adequate to health-disease processes. In this perspective, this study aims to reflect, from reports, on the use of the theory of social representations as a pedagogical possibility in the development of active methodologies, and to build a meaningful learning. Methods and Findings: This is an analytical study, with a qualitative approach, developed based on the statements of the experiences lived by students of the postgraduate program in nursing at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. It discusses the relationship between the use of active methods of teaching and learning, meaningful learning and theory of social representations, created by Serge Moscovici. The assumptions and techniques that justify the concept and the research in the field of social representations were concurrently assimilated as the study object and as a methodological theoretical strategy, promoting the construction of teaching and learning processes based on educational practices and on the meaning shared by the subjects of the experienced reality. Conclusions: The use of active methodologies was extremely favorable to the interaction, comprehension and production of knowledge of the involved subjects regarding the contribution to the study of social representations.

Compreendendo a “alta em hanseníase”: uma análise de conceito

Objetivo: Analisar o conceito de alta em hanseniase. Metodos: Estudo teorico pautado no referencial metodologico de analise de conceito. Realizou-se levantamento bibliografico, de dezembro de 2015 a janeiro de 2016, nas bases SCOPUS, CINAHL, PUBMED, LILACS, SCIELO e BDENF, mediante uso dos descritores “Hanseniase” e “Alta do Paciente” , obtendo-se 13 estudos. Resultados: Identificou-se alta por cura, alta medicamentosa, alta bacteriologica e pos-alta como possiveis usos do conceito. Os atributos definidos foram conclusao da poliquimioterapia, conclusao da poliquimioterapia para paucibacilares, conclusao da poliquimioterapia para multibacilares e cura da hanseniase. Como antecedentes, identificou-se infeccao pelo M. leprae, acometimento de pele e de nervos perifericos, diagnostico e tratamento e reacoes hansenicas. Saida do registro ativo de casos de hanseniase e continuidade de atencao em saude foram os consequentes. Apresentou-se um caso modelo e um caso contrario. Conclusoes: A analise ampliou o conceito “alta em hanseniase”, para alem da clinica focada na poliquimioterapia. Palavras-chave: Hanseniase. Alta do paciente. Formacao de conceito. Enfermagem.

Repercussion of Segregation in the Lives of Children Separated by Leprosy

Introduction: Leprosy is a disease that carried the characteristic of incurable and disfiguring for years, causing the social segregation of patients before the family and society. Objective: To describe the repercussion of segregation in the lives of children separated by leprosy who lived in Oswaldo Cruz School. Method: This is an exploratory, descriptive study, with a qualitative approach and with the methodological framework Oral History of Life. Results: The sample consisted of 52 family members of former patients segregated in Hospital Sao Francisco of Assis Cologne Hospital, registered in the Reintegration Movement of People Affected by Leprosy in RN (MORHAN Potiguar). The network was structured from a zero point and consists of five collaborators. Data were collected through individual interviews, and through an instrument with open questions, which were recorded and transcribed. The texts were submitted to thematic content analysis, emerging four themes: broken ties; stigmatized; primary school; leprosy or Hansens disease. Conclusion: It was evidenced that isolation has influenced the lives of the study participants. The historical records lived in the past are still present in the collaborators memory and directly reflected in thinking about leprosy today.

Conhecimento sobre prevenção de incapacidades em um grupo de autocuidado em hanseníase

The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge acquired on prevention of disabilities in the control of hanseniasis by the participants in a self-care group in a reference hospital. This was a qualitative study, performed in a reference hospital in infectious diseases in Natal-RN, gathering 16 members of a self-care group in hanseniasis. The data were collected from September to November of 2012, through an open question and adopting the method of content analysis of Bardin to analyze and interpret the obtained answers. The following categories emerged from the findings: care in the prevention of ulcers and dressing; prevention of falls; and socio-economic rehabilitation. The results allowed the observation that the users’ participation in group meetings contributed significantly to the acquisition of knowledge about self-care practices.