PERCEPTION OF PREVENTIVE ACTIONS AND SELF-CARE OF UNDERGRADUATES OF NURSING SCHOOLS

Authors

  • BIANCA DA SILVA ALCANTARA PEREIRA
  • JOSSIANA WILKE FALLER
  • REINALDO ANTONIO DA SILVA SOBRINHO
  • MARIETA FERNANDES SANTOS
  • ADRIANA ZILLY

Keywords:

Self-care, Nursing students, Health care promotion.

Abstract


Self-care can be defined as the fulfillment of tasks that people do for their own benefit in maintaining health and well-being. The aim of the article was to identify self-care practice among nursing/Unioeste undergraduates, in Foz do Iguaçu/PR. This is an exploratory cross-sectional study, whose population is made up of 188 nursing students, and data collection was conducted in the first half of 2012, after approval by the Ethics Committee/Unioeste. Data were collected by administering a questionnaire to 120 students who volunteered to participate in this survey. On the subject of self-care, 91 students (75.83%) mentioned physical exercise practice, but only 44 (36.66%) do exercise, and the same occurred to all of the other self-care measures mentioned. Most of them did not perform any preventive screenings. Although college students have enough knowledge to perform self-care, they do not take care of themselves. There is a dualism in the speech of aspiring professionals and what they actually experience.

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TRABALHOS PUBLICADOS

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PERCEPTION OF PREVENTIVE ACTIONS AND SELF-CARE OF UNDERGRADUATES OF NURSING SCHOOLS. (2016). Fiep Bulletin - Online, 85(1). https://ojs.fiepbulletin.net/fiepbulletin/article/view/85.a1.52