Competência informacional dos estudantes da área de saúde, da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

It presents the results of the research on information literacy of the health’s students of the Federal University of Ceará. This research aims to analyze the informational behavior of this public, and how they include access to the computer-mediated information in the health to carry out scientific research and production of academic work. The study was conducted through a questionnaire for the focus group mentioned. The results show that the participants have good knowledge in the use of technological tools and the Internet, but they demonstrate difficulties in the use of repositories and sources of specialized information. It can be concluded that it is necessary the implementation of policies and programs of information literacy by librarians from the Library of Health Sciences in order to increase the level of understanding and competent use of information for the production of health knowledge.