143.24 TB ciranda: Evaluation of educational project at Sao Marcos school, municipality of Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil

Thursday, April 30, 2009
Sadrivaan A and B (The Hilton Istanbul Hotel )
Regiane A. C. De Paula, MSc, PhD Tuberculosis Division, Brazil
Valdir Souza Pinto Sao Paulo State Secretary of Health, Brazil
Milton Parron Junior Tuberculosis Division, Brazil
Ana Maria C. Lefevre Research Institute of Collective Discourse, Brazil
Fernando Lefevre Research Institute of Collective Discourse, Brazil
Setting
Private school in the municipality of Mogi das Cruzes, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Objective
Evaluation of educational project called Tuberculosis (TB) Ciranda: an educational project for advocacy with a proposal to use weekdays on schools for activities of culture, art, music and information in the clarification work on TB problem.
Methodology
A qualitative methodology, the Collective Discourse (CD), was used by a  questionnaire survey using an internet-based software called qualiquantisoftware (QLQT)  The CD is a technique that, using a discourse strategy, allows capturing a pool of social representations to mold imaginary data. The CD consists of a non-mathematical, non meta-linguistics way of representing (and also of producing) in a rigorous way, the collectivity though, which is made by a series of procedures to build the collective statements. Those procedures culminate in a speeches-synthesis which, written on the 1st person of singular, gather responses from different individuals with discourse content of similar sense.     
Results
Two questions were asked: in question 1 regarding ‘why does occur TB yet?’ the main ideas were lack of information, education (67.0%); neglect of treatment (12.0%); airborne transmission (6.0%); lack of care and importance of illness (12.0%); lack of resources, social inequity (19.0%); prejudice (2.0%), did not answer (7.0%); and new drugs (1.0%). In question 2 ‘What can be done to avoid new TB cases to happen?’  the main ideas were information (75.8%); researches (6.1%); mobilization (6.1%); quit to smoking (0.8%); did not answer (8.3%); complete the treatment (6.8%); and health services (5.3%).  
Conclusion
TB Ciranda is being used as an advocacy strategy to carry out information into communities as an attempting to disseminate knowledge, replying among peers information and also prevention. In 2008 students from high school assumed the duty to reply TB Ciranda on public schools on a social commitment.

Learning Objectives: This research is related to educational activities on TB control at Tuberculosis Division of Sao Paulo State Secretary of Health.

Sub-Theme: Progress on prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis