Problematization Arch for Educational Health Planning in Nursing Students’ Perception

Abstract

The study aimed to show the perception of Nursing students on the use of the Problematization Arch in the teaching of educational health planning. This is a descriptive qualitative study carried out with 15 undergraduate nursing students, developed at a public university in the Northern region of Brazil from April to May 2019. The researched subject is part of the second year of the Nursing degree and focuses on the development of health education. We collected data through a semi-structured interviews with guiding questions. We used the data analysis technique of Grounded Theory, separating, conceptualizing, and interconnecting the data with each other through open and axial coding. This process was developed with the help of the trial version of the program Atlas TI®. Three categories emerged from the analysis: Understanding of Active Methodology and the Arch of Maguerez; Educational Health Planning: knowledge and experience; and Arch of Maguerez in the teaching of educational health planning. Students understand and perceive the Arch of Maguerez as an eligible strategy for educational planning in health, as they ackowledge a relationship between the tools and consider that the arch proposes democratic teaching-learning relationships, values previous knowledge, and dialogues with the reality of the target audience.