Promotion of Hearing Health based on the Dynamics of Young Doctor Project

Abstract

Introduction: Telehealth enables knowledge to reach a greater number of people, using dynamic and interactive resources. In this context, the Young Doctor Project consists on capacitating students of elementary and high school about themes of the health area in a motivating dynamic so they can multiply the knowledge to the community in which they are involved, by capacitating courses and Universities extensions programs. Objective: This study aimed to develop and evaluate, using questionnaires, a capacitating program about hearing health. Methods: It was developed a capacitating program about hearing health, using the Young Doctor Project. Participated 10 students of elementary school, it was presented the content composed by in class and distant activities with access to the cybertutor and a dynamic. The closure of the study was marked by the sustainable social action, which in the “young doctors” transmitted the acquired knowledge to the scholar and familiar community. Through a pre and post program questionnaire it was evaluated the satisfaction on the use of cybertutor and the quantity of information retained. Results: Students participated of the education methodologies, transmitting the knowledge to 100 people. It was verified the high level of satisfaction on cybertutor, and also improvement in the performance of students in the questionnaire post capacitating program. Conclusion: The elaboration and execution of the capacitating program in hearing health produced satisfactory results in increasing the information about the theme on students, contributing so they became able to multiply knowledge to community..