Necessidades de cuidado em educação em saúde para adolescentes escolares: uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

Adolescence is the stage that more goes through life cycle transformations, characterized by a transitional period between childhood and adulthood, where physical, mental, emotional, social and sexual. Thus, it is a phase of vulnerabilities and potential. In this way, it is an important period to deepen discussion and guidelines on self-care, and address the needs of specific care for this age group. It is crucial that the Health unit make a link with the school being one of the alternatives the School Health Programme, for the development of actions aimed at the promotion, protection and recovery of health of schoolchildren with a focus on their needs. These alternatives may contribute to bring the teens to the basic health unit, and create links with health professionals. In this way we seek to identify the demands of care for adolescents. It is an integrative review of literature. Literature search was performed in the databases BDENF, LILCAS and SCIELO, to identify articles published in the period from 2005 to 2015. The descriptors used were adolescent, school health and nursing. Studies were included with full text available, in Portuguese language. Were excluded theses, dissertations, monographs and books. The results allowed the identification of three categories that reflect the health needs in the perception of adolescents, which were: Care Needs in health education in school adolescents ' perception; Health education for adolescents and nursing's contributions, strategies used by nurses and educators in the exercise of care in health education for school teenagers; allowing you to identify the issues pointed out by teenagers and described in the literature, among which stood out early pregnancy, alcohol and drugs, and violence. Concluding that the integration of health services with school does is essential for the development of health promotion and adolescents ' autonomy.