ABSTRACT
Objective:
Describe the experience of extension activities in the prevention of COVID-19 with children from public school system.
Methods:
Experience report of critical and reflexive approach on the extension experience of the project “Healthcare at School” (Atenção à Saúde na Escola), in the COVID-19 pandemic context, in a countryside town in the State of Goias, in March 2020.
Results:
It is carried out five hand sanitizing workshops as a prevention for COVID-19 with 57 children from 2 to 5 years old in the State of Goias.
Final Considerations:
The playful approach in a low-cost workshop format was a strategy to meet an emergency requirement of the Community in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Descriptors:
Pandemics; Children; Public Health; Health Education; Pediatric Nursing