O conhecimento docente sobre a doença falciforme no município de Cruz das Almas - Bahia

Abstract

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the genetic disorder most prevalent in Brazil. The adaptation of the students who live with SCD to school deserves special attention, given the high rates of truancy and distortion age/grade. Assign to these facts the recurrent clinical manifestations with admissions that prevent the permanence of students in classrooms. The aim of this study was to understand the perception of the professor for the student's training with SCD in State schools of the municipality of Cruz das Almas-Ba. For this, the application of structured questionnaire. Most of the teachers said to possess knowledge about sickle cell disease. However, it has been found that teachers have misconceptions about the role of the school and the teacher at the pedagogical follow-up of these students. The hospital class could be a pedagogical strategy for continuity of content that this student eventually would lose due to the time it is hospitalized, are unknown by most of the teachers who participated in this research. The results indicated the need for the popularization of knowledge about the SCD in schools to meet the special educational needs of these students.