Diversity and communication: perceptions of deaf on the activity of health education carried out by medical students
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https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i2.1827Keywords:
Medical education, Humanization of assistance, Physician-patient relations, Communication, Deafness.Abstract
The deaf community has its own culture and language, unknown to most listeners, which excludes it from various societal processes. Communication barriers and prejudice hinder access to health services. The experience of a practical activity of Health Education made with 19 deaf people by 20 students from the fist year of a medical course was analyzed. After a course in Brazilian Sign Language, students performed an activity with the deaf, in which they presented lectures on health topics and interacted in actions such aspressure measurement and calculation of the Body Mass Index. Subsequently, the deaf participated in two focus groups to report their experience. The analysis of the data was given by the Discourse of Collective Subject. Deaf people were satisfid with the interaction, reported concern about prevention and self-care and positive expectations regarding the training of humanized and qualifid doctors for their care.
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