Health education workshops with children in the context of COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

ABSTRACT Objective: Describe the experience of extension activities in the prevention of COVID-19 with children from public school system. Methods: Experience report of critical and reflexive approach on the extension experience of the project “Healthcare at School” (Atenção à Saúde na Escola), in the COVID-19 pandemic context, in a countryside town in the State of Goias, in March 2020. Results: It is carried out five hand sanitizing workshops as a prevention for COVID-19 with 57 children from 2 to 5 years old in the State of Goias. Final Considerations: The playful approach in a low-cost workshop format was a strategy to meet an emergency requirement of the Community in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords

• Pandemics
• Children
• Public Health
• Health Education
• Pediatric Nursing