Jovens escolares e suas relações com as tecnologias e mídias digitais na busca de informações sobre saúde

Abstract

Technologies are present in the most varied spaces where young people are inserted. It is believed that with the spread of digital information and communication technologies can be used by them as tools to seek varied information. With this in mind, this study has as a general goal to analyze how young schools seek and use health information through Technologies. This is a quantitative and qualitative research, with the settting of the State School Of Professional Education Monsenhor Expedito da Silveira de Sousa, in the municipality of Camocim, Ceará. The participants were young high school students from that school, enrolled in the nursing technician course, 42 participated through the questionare and seven in the online focus group, whose age range was from 15 to 18 years old. Participation in the entire survey took place by non-probabilistic sampling, for convenience. For the information collection was used online questionnaire complemented whit the focus group technique also online. The results were analyzed in a descriptive way, from simple statistics and thematic content analysis. The participants have shown answers about the use of the internet, which social networks most accesss, the reasons for access, the time they dispense on the web. About searching for health information on the internet, about posting health topics on social media, what platforms they use and why they share the information online. The importance of the internet network for the lives of Young people was also discussed, about the limits of access being safe and healthy. It was even said how they perceive that information could be better transmitted and made available. It was understood that the internet and its numerous tools are constant reality in the daily lives of young people, for the most diverse purposes, including access to health information, which, therefore, must be better northed and rethought new ways of disposing the contentes so that this potentializes this space of source of knowledge.