Elaboração e validação de tecnologia educativa a partir da percepção de saúde bucal dos indígenas Parakanã

Abstract

In the context of indigenous heath, precarious conditions of their oral heath are still perceived. This study for the understanding of their ethnicity from a deeper way of understanding the indigenous people was elaborated an oral education from this ethnic group. The use of the booklet within the Parakanã indigenous community aims to contribute to a better understanding of their oral health condition. The study had the participation of 61 Parakanã indigenous people age over 10 years and was carried out in two stages, where an initial exploratory (l) was developed, which investigated the perception of first oral health though a study in a semi-structured research. (ll) methodological development, technology construction research. The main results obtained in the exploratory research were: 39% answered that they do know how to read awaete xe’enga and another 23% know to read very little; More than 90% of everyone knows that they need to brush their teeth; 72% are not respondents what is dental caries; 35% respond that they feel pain when chew a food; 61% think it is good to have material on oral care. For the preparation of the booklet, it was used direct, objective, easy to understand by the indigenous people so that they can identify with the relevant content. This was validated by expert judges such as: indigenous educators, anthropologist dentists, pedagogue, social communicator among others. Parakanã education insertion in the context of health education must be conceived as an important tool for promoting health and technologies, which in pratice must take care with the improvement of living conditions and technologies.