Representações sociais sobre educação permanente na perspectiva de assistentes sociais que atuam na atenção secundária em saúde

Abstract

Introduction: Studying the social representations of health promotion, illness and continuing education provides insight into the group identity, weaknesses and potential of workers. Workers' health has been positively impacted by permanent education actions. This process allows the pedagogical dimension of the profession, which unfolds in the socio-educational competence of the Social Worker, to work from a perspective of socializing information. Objectives: To understand the social representation of continuing education for promoting the health of social workers who work in emergency units of secondary health care in Uberlândia, MG. Methodology: This research has a quantitative-qualitative, descriptive-exploratory approach and is based on a bibliographical and field review. It was divided into two stages, namely: the first was an Integrative Literature Review, which used the PICo strategy to elaborate the problem question, the Virtual Health Library databases; Scientific Electronic Library Online; Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences and the Portal of Periodicals of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel. The inclusion and exclusion criteria and the data extraction tool were defined. The critical analysis of the evidence was based on methodological rigor. The narrative synthesis of the findings was based on thematic content analysis. The second stage was field research, which used an online questionnaire with sociodemographic data and a semi-structured recall test. The data was analyzed using Microsoft Excel® and Atlas.Ti software and the narratives were analyzed using thematic content analysis. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee under CAAE: 71177323.4.0000.5154. Results: As this dissertation refers to an equivalent work, we present two articles as results. The first was submitted to the journal Educação em revista and is an Integrative Literature Review, which included 5 articles for analysis that were categorized according to their themes. The second is a primary article, involving human beings and intended for submission to the Journal Ciência & Saúde Coletiva. Twenty-eight social workers took part in the study. The most common concepts of continuing education were: education 14 (2.56%), professional 13 (2.38%), knowledge and permanent 11 (2.01%) each. Conclusion: We conclude that the Social Workers are aware of continuing education, consider it in its cultural and social aspects, and in their social representations infer it as a strategy that must be sought by the worker themselves, under a self-charge for its execution.