Author:

• Zélia Maria de Sousa Araújo Santos - Santos, Z. M. S. A. - Fortaleza, Ceará - UNiversidade de Fortaleza- UNIFOR - <zeliasantos@unifor.br>

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Abstract:

Abstract This participatory research aimed to evaluate behavioral changes in fifteen parents of pre-school children to prevent the risk factors of arterial hypertension, applying a health education technology that is based on the Health Beliefs Model at a private school in Fortaleza-CE, Brazil. The field research was carried out through educational workshops and data collection through questionnaires and interviews. After organizing the data in categories, the analysis was based on the premises of health education. Through the application of the health education technology, significant changes were observed in the parents' habits, besides the roles they assumed – agent of change and multiplier of educative actions in the family. Although difficulties occurred in the change process, the parents were motivated to prevent the risk factors of arterial hypertension in themselves and their children. Thus, the health education technology based on the Health Beliefs Model showed to be efficient, as significant behavioral changes occurred, and the parents were motivated to prevent arterial hypertension through a healthy lifestyle.
Keywords: Hypertension, Lifestyle, Risk factors.

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