Knowledge and practices about health among Quilombola men: contributions to health care.

Autor: Santos FVD; Universidade do Estado do Pará. Belém, Pará, Brazil., Rodrigues ILA; Universidade do Estado do Pará. Belém, Pará, Brazil., Nogueira LMV; Universidade do Estado do Pará. Belém, Pará, Brazil., Andrade EGR; Universidade do Estado do Pará. Belém, Pará, Brazil., Soares AS; Universidade do Estado do Pará. Belém, Pará, Brazil., Andrade ÉFR; Universidade do Estado do Pará. Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Jazyk: English; Portuguese
Zdroj: Revista brasileira de enfermagem [Rev Bras Enferm] 2023 Dec 08; Vol. 76Suppl 2 (Suppl 2), pp. e20230138. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 08 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2023-0138
Abstrakt: Objective: to analyze health knowledge and practices among Quilombola men.
Methods: a qualitative, descriptive study, carried out with 40 men from two Quilombola communities in Santa Izabel do Pará, state of Pará, Brazil. Individual interviews were carried out using a semi-structured script. Text corpus was subjected to analysis with Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires 0.6, alpha 3, through Descending Hierarchical Classification.
Results: among participants, eight (20.00%) were aged 55 to 59 years. 382 text segments were identified, with 299 (78.27%) being used, generating five lexical classes, which made up two subcorpora. The classes were organized into four thematic axes, covering knowledge about health and practices to prevent and solve health problems.
Final Considerations: men highlighted popular/traditional wisdom permeated by biomedical knowledge, translating their understanding of how to act to remain or become healthy.
Databáze: MEDLINE