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O que pode ser considerado comunicação de qualidade para a promoção da saúde e da prevenção de ISTs entre jovens? Este artigo apresenta uma proposta de metodologia de pesquisa para avaliar a qualidade de peças produzidas no contexto de campanhas de comunicação pública, tais como vídeos, cartazes, folhetos, mídias sonoras e impressas, postagens em redes sociais on-line etc. Os indicadores utilizados para determinar parâmetros de qualidade foram extraídos da literatura especializada e sistematizados em um roteiro de avaliação, com sete blocos temáticos articulados em torno de proposições normativas. Neste artigo, caracterizamos tal roteiro, sua fundamentação e sua forma de aplicação, que buscam responder ao desafio de determinar o que é qualidade em teoria e prática na comunicação promotora da saúde. Trata-se de um instrumento objetivo sobre corpora extensos que pode ser aplicado por pesquisadores individuais ou equipes.(AU)
What constitutes effective communication for health promotion and the prevention of STI among young people? This article proposes a methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of public publicity campaign pieces, such as videos, posters, leaflets, audio and print media, and social media posts. The indicators used to determine effectiveness were taken from the specialist literature and systematized in the form of an evaluation guide consisting of seven thematic blocks structured around normative propositions. This article describes the guide, the rationale behind it, and its application as a health communication tool for determining effectiveness in theory and practice. The guide provides an objective tool that can be applied by individual researchers or teams to a broad range of corpora.(AU)
¿Qué es lo que puede considerarse comunicación de calidad para la promoción de la salud y de la prevención de ITSs entre jóvenes? Este artículo presenta una propuesta de metodología de investigación para evaluar la cantidad de piezas producidas en el contexto de campañas de comunicación pública, tales como videos, carteles, folletos, medios sonoros e impresos, posteos en redes sociales online etc. Los indicadores utilizados para determinar parámetros de calidad se extrajeron de la literatura especializada y se sistematizaron en un guion de evaluación, con siete bloques temáticos articulados alrededor de propuestas normativas. En este artículo, caracterizamos ese guion, su fundamentación y forma de aplicación, que buscan responder al desafío en la comunicación promotora de la salud, de determinar lo que es calidad en teoría y práctica. Se trata de un instrumento objetivo y que pueden aplicarlo investigadores individuales o equipos sobre corpus extensos.(AU)
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Humanos , Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis , Avaliação de Programas e Instrumentos de Pesquisa , Comunicação em Saúde/métodos , Promoção da Saúde , Inquéritos e Questionários , Pesquisa Qualitativa , Avaliação da Pesquisa em SaúdeRESUMO
BACKGROUND: In 2015-2017, the Americas experienced a highly consequential epidemics for pregnancy and childbearing. Mainly transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, but also through sexual intercourse, the Zika virus poses the risk of congenital Zika syndrome to fetus, which includes microcephaly and other child development complications. When a public health crisis taps directly into reproductive health, typically a feminine realm, responses to the emergency may exacerbate deeply-rooted gender norms. This paper investigates the role of gender in two relational contexts: (a) the government-led response to the pandemic in terms of communication campaigns aimed at preventing Zika infections; and (b) an individual level of response to the emergency, concerning women's negotiation with their sexual partners with regard to the prevention of Zika as well as pregnancies. METHODS: We conducted content analysis of 94 unique pieces from public health communication campaigns produced by governmental agencies with the goal of promoting Zika awareness. Print and online materials were collected from May 2016 to August 2017, and included TV ads, Internet Pop-ups, and pamphlets. We also analyzed transcripts from 16 focus groups conducted with reproductive-aged women (18-40) in Belo Horizonte and Recife, two large cities differently affected by the Zika outbreak. Women answered open-ended questions connected to the epidemic, in areas such as personal knowledge and experiences with the Zika virus, experiences of their friends and acquaintances, their primary information sources, their perceptions of public health efforts toward containing the outbreak, as well as women's contraceptive use. RESULTS: Campaign pieces handling pregnancy and microcephaly were largely gendered. Pieces targeted women, placing on their shoulders the responsibility for protecting a potential fetus from the disease. Importantly, campaigns neglected addressing male's participation on Zika prevention and contraceptive management, while failing to take into account Brazil's large proportion of unplanned pregnancies. Women were placed in a double bind by being expected to prevent both pregnancy and Zika, in a context where gendered power imbalances often translate in women having little power/means for condom negotiation/avoiding unprotected sexual intercourse. CONCLUSION: Government and individual responses to the epidemics reinforced gender roles, situating pregnant women as responsible for averting mosquito bites and microcephaly. Further, prevention campaigns largely excluded men. Since low-socioeconomic status women possessed fewer resources to preclude infection, we also found that beyond the gender divide, this subgroup faced more pronounced Zika prevention challenges as they found it harder to negotiate condom use with their sexual partners and often could not access other types of contraceptives resulting in unplanned pregnancies.