Diálogo preventivo com adolescentes sobre seus saberes e práticas de consumo do álcool / Preventive dialogue with adolescents on their knowledge and practices of alcohol consumption

ABSTRACT

This is a qualitative research, convergent, whose object is focused on the understandings and practices of adolescents on the consumption of alcoholic beverages. The objectives are to find information about the understandings of adolescents about alcohol consumption and to discuss the influence of this knowledge in their practices regarding consumption. The participants were 12 adolescents from Oscar Tenorio Technical School, from September to December 2010. For the production of data, a socioeconomic questionnaire was applied, as well as group discussion and participant observation. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Anna Nery School of Nursing / St. Francis of Assis College Hospital, under protocol 082/2010. From the triangulation of data collection techniques, the information went through thematic analysis and then traversed according to the found categories of analysis: Discussing the socializing function of alcohol consumption by adolescents, Dialoguing about (i) morality of alcohol consumption, Reflecting on the family context and its relationship with alcohol consumption by adolescents, Consumption alcohol talking about the selfcontrol. We conclude that the results supported the preventive care to be developed with adolescents through a participatory methodology that brings effectiveness for this care