Teste de papanicolaou: construção e validação de material educativo para usuárias de serviços de saúde

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Gonçales, Marlene Bueno [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Neoplasias uterinas/prevenção & controle; Saúde da mulher; Educação em saúde; Uterine neoplasms/prevention & control; Women's health; Education in health area
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/23708

The cancer of the cervix of the uterus is the most common among the women in the world. In Brazil, it is supposed to be the third malignant neoplasia found among women. It can be prevented if detected precociously. It is necessary to aware people through health education so that it can help women to be more autonomous concerning their body and health. With the purpose of contributing to improvement in women health promotion, this paper had the aim of building and validating educational material with step by step orientations about the importance and accomplishment of Papanicolaou exam to public health service users of São Paulo city in Brazil. It is a descriptive, exploratory and observational research with the purpose of developing a folder with orientation about the cancer of the uterine cervix to women, having as theoretical reference the adults' education. Its production was done with women, using language and drawings easily understood. It was analyzed by eight specialists in the area. After the proper changes, the folder was printed and validated by 96 users of the basic health units of São Paulo city. The results of acceptance reveal that all the women considered the text interesting with easy understandable sentences and simple illustration which helped their comprehension. The majority was interested in reading the text until the end which made them to rethink their health. The women expressed the good quality of the material when they said they were interested in taking it home. It was concluded that the educational material produced and validated will be able to help in the knowledge production of women that usually go to health public bases and contribute to the population recruiting and accomplishment of this simple and indispensable exam to uterine cervical cancer that must help a lot to minimize the female diseases and mortality rates by cancer.