Avaliação das estratégias de educação em saúde com adolescentes

Abstract

Introduction: considering the importance and relevance of health education with adolescents, it is essential to use strategies that are increasingly welcoming, dynamic, integrated and subjective. Thus, the objective was to evaluate strategies of health education used with adolescents, based on existing publications in scientific journals. Development: this is a descriptive, and qualitative research of the integrative review type. Inclusion criteria were the following: titles in Portuguese, full text freely available, articles and publications from the last five years (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016). Articles that were repeated or in a literature review format or that did not respond to the problem question researched were excluded. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, there were 26 articles, which were fully read and analyzed in the present research. The Northeast region was prominent with 10 publications and the Primary Health Care magazine had the largest number of publications, with most articles using a qualitative approach. Educational workshops were reported in 12 surveys and sexual and reproductive health issues were addressed in most actions. Schools were the most chosen (or“frequent choice”) scenarios for articles. On average, 69% of the articles did not use a methodological basis to evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions. Limitations of the publications regarding the conclusions and evaluations of the strategies used superficially were also evidenced. Conclusion: it reinforces the importance of the research in the professional area, ensuring both the necessity of searching for methodologies, and evaluating the strategy used, for a better applicability in a dynamic, affable and personal way.