Ensino e aprendizagem sobre medicina tradicional chinesa e técnicas de acupressão como possibilidade de cuidado em saúde

Abstract

As a means of providing the new care options population, with low cost, high effectiveness, in which the subjects themselves were/are co-responsible for their health, contributing also to the health of family and community, we sought to add to this search health education activities implemented by nurses, traditional Chinese medicine, presented by the Health Ministry in the National Integrative and Complementary Practices Politic. Therefore this research has owned the guiding question: "What benefits nurses can bring to the subjects when used as a health education strategy to traditional Chinese medicine, prepared by the National Politics on Integrative and Complementary Practices? Was defined as general objective: To develop health education strategies, using Traditional Chinese Medicine, such as innovation service. And the following objectives: (1) Provide by conducting meetings, knowledge and learning of Traditional Chinese Medicine for acupressure techniques, and (2) identify the knowledge about Traditional Chinese Medicine before and after the educational activities. For this, there was a Convergent Care Research in a Family Health Strategy, the urban area of a city in the Rio Grande do Sul Northwest, where in a group, health education activities were held, at which the subjects were invited to visit and use practices related to Traditional Chinese Medicine as a new option (self) care. Important to remember that this method were associated with research and care, which occurred at the same time. For the collection of information was used to semi-structured interviews and participant observation, and interpretation and analysis, which occurred simultaneously with the collection, we have followed the steps as defined by the method. The results led to three categories: conceptualizing health in the perception of the subjects, knowledge of the subjects on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine / Acupressure: benefits and health education strategies. With the completion of the study revealed that acupressure can be deployed in health services, and proves to be beneficial both to the subject, which adds new knowledge, as the professional who gets to know better your public and offer you health conditions alternative ways.