Objectives: to check the perception of elderly people living with chronic diseases regarding the interdisciplinary health practices focused on self-care.Methodology: It is an analytical study with a qualitative approach, carried out in the period from October 2018 to June 2019,with 22 elderly people as participants from an interaction group. Eight fortnightly meetings were carried out with preventive activities and workshops focused on self-care.For the data collection, there were used as instruments a biosocial questionnaire and a semistructured interview designed by the researchers.Data analysis was carried out based on the methodological theoretical assumptions of the Collective Subject Discourse-CSD. Results: The majority of the participants were female (96.2%), with a prevalent age group of 71-75 years (32.7%), white people (42.1%), widows (52.6 %) and of catholic religion (76.3%), with incomplete elementary education training (39.5%), monthly income between 1 and 2 minimum wages (55.3%), living alone (42.1%) and that have children (94.7%). Concerning the clinical aspects, most of them have more than one chronic disease (84.6%) and lives primarily with systemic arterial hypertension (63.5%), diabetes mellitus (32.7%), dyslipidemias (23.0%). When analyzing the Collective Subject Discourse in relation to self-care impact, four central ideal arose: eating habits; conscious use of teas; prevention of falls; mental health and memory.Conclusion:the elderly people reported that the participation in programs with the focus on health was essential to increase knowledge, make clarifications, guide, and modify the life habits that were mistaken. That is to say, it helped to improve self-care which directly affected health and quality of life.
This study had as goal to assess the use of medicinal plants and phytotherapy medicines by elderly people with chronic noncommunicable diseases. It is a descriptive study of quantitative approach, a section of the main extension project called "Education and interdisciplinary health practices for elderly people with chronic noncommunicable diseases approved by the Research Ethics Committee (CEP) with opinion nº 2,960,922.The study comprised 40 elderly women with chronic noncommunicable diseases, enrolled in the elderly interaction group in a Higher Education Institution in the interior of Bahia. For data collection, there were used as instruments the sociodemographic and economic questionnaires and the questionnaire of medicinal plants and phytotherapy. Data analysis was carried out by using the program Statistical Package for Social Science -SPSS). It was noticed that 97.3% of the study's participants said that they used medicinal plants and 81.11% phytotherapy medicines. In terms of the purpose of use, 49.2% said they use it as a lifelong habit acquired and 37.8% stated they used it for therapeutic purposes. It was evidenced that 56.8% of participants reported that they knew that by using these substances they could have some drug interaction and 59.5% said they knew that the use can lead to side effects. For 51.36% family influence was the primary motivation for the use. It was verified that the majority of elderly people stated they use medicinal plants and phytotherapy medicines because it represent the lifelong habit acquired, especially by the family environment what is required is the implementation of professional training actions, health education and the appreciation of traditional knowledge for a better understanding on the correct use of medicinal plants.
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