The teachers' discourse on pediculosis transmission before an educational activity

Authors

  • Pércide Verônica da Silva Cunha FIOCRUZ; Instituto Oswaldo Cruz; Laboratório de Educação em Ambiente e Saúde
  • Zeneida Teixeira Pinto FIOCRUZ; Instituto Oswaldo Cruz; Laboratório de Educação em Ambiente e Saúde
  • Edson Ferreira Liberal Hospital Universitário Gaffrée Guinle; Serviço de Pediatria
  • Júlio Vianna Barbosa FIOCRUZ; Instituto Oswaldo Cruz; Laboratório de Educação em Ambiente e Saúde

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.19892

Keywords:

Pediculosis, transmission, health education, Discourse of the Collective Subject

Abstract

Pediculosis is a public health pathology. Educational methods would certainly colaborate to the success of the treatment and prevention of this pathology. This study, developed in Rio de Janeiro's schools (RJ), Brazil, demonstrates the primary teachers' discourse on how pediculosis is transmitted. The pieces of information were obtained from interviews and analized by the Discourse of the Collective Subject method. Fourteen categories were revealed. Some correct ways of transmission were presented, for example: through physical and corporal contact, like "head to head", with people who have pediculosis. On the other hand, some of these categories revealed lack of knowledge about the subject: the lice fly; the lice jump from one's head to anothers'; through the nits. These results demonstrated that there are teachers that don't know about the transmission of this pathology. For this reason, the possibility that these teachers have to collaborate effectively to its prevention in schools diminishes; the same occurs with the health promotion of their students.

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2008-12-01

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Vol. 18 No. 3 (2008)

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