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The waiting room: potential for people with arterial hypertension to learn

Sala de espera: potencial para el aprendizaje de personas con hipertensión arterial

ABSTRACT

Objective:

To analyze the meanings assigned by people with systemic arterial hypertension to health education actions in the waiting room.

Method:

This is an analytical qualitative study, held in 2016 with 19 people with arterial hypertension from a health unit. The data were collected in households, through a semi-structured interview and field notes, recorded on audio, transcribed and organized by thematic analysis, being analyzed considering Vygostky’s Cultural-Historical Learning Theory.

Result:

Meanings of attention, interest, pleasure and learning assigned to educational practice denote the importance of interaction and mediation to reconstruct knowledge about blood pressure control and to attribute a new meaning to self-care.

Final considerations:

The waiting room became an environment that promoted interaction, favoring the construction of meanings and internalization of knowledge with potential for lifestyle changes.

Descriptors:
Hypertension; Health Education; Primary Health Care; Nursing Care; Promotion of Health

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