Educational strategies for health education with teens: a review integrative

Abstract

Objective: identifying the strategies used in health education with teenagers. Method: an integrative review in databases ADOLEC, SciELO and LILACS, through the descriptors, adolescent, education in health and teaching. The search was conducted in June 2013 and found 296 articles. The final sample consisted of 18 articles. Results: for characterization of the selected studies there was used a specific instrument for data collection validated. The results were presented in a descriptive way, in three stages. The first was the description of the publications identification data. In the second methodological characteristics were evaluated. And the third phase is to organize content; we opted for the qualitative analysis, systematizing this content in three thematic categories. Conclusion: the identification and interpretation of selected studies made it possible to build a panoramic view of the strategies used in health education to adolescents.