AIDS/Jogos educativos: viabilizando estratégias de avaliação

Abstract

This is a study about educative games, to identify the viability of its application in education and prevention of HIV/AIDS to school's teenagers. The referential, to validation of them we used teachers of state public school from the municipal of São Gonçalo do Amarante, in Ceará state, to stimulate the youth to practice self-care. To collect data, it used the following games: Dominaids, Baralhaids, and Memoraids, with the participation of 50 teachers. To valuation games, it applied instruments, as scale of punctuation, values and description of expressions. The data were gathered and analysed to serve the requisites for two kinds of self- cares: developing, according to OREM (1995). The results pointed that 75% of the variables studied in the requisite for universal self-care, the considered the games very interesting, although to 25% they were interesting only. Regarding to the requisite for developing self- care, in 50% from the variables, the games were considered very interesting, the others 50% considered only interesting. The teachers judged the games adequate to mobilization of teenagers to attitudes related to self-care, related HIV/AIDS, pointing them out, still, as valuable instruments to engagement in educative acts, related to development of self-care attitudes. The game, itself, is not a specific instmment of nursing, but it can be adapted to situation of care and self-care in nursering.