Abstract

The use of health education strategies and art in rural health prevention focusing on alcohol abuse/addiction and other drugs

Part of Special Series: WONCA World Rural Health Conference Abstracts 2022go to url

AUTHORS

name here
Andressa Cavalcante Paz e Silva
1 GP

name here
Romulo Araujo da Rocha
2 Psychologist

name here
Jaqueline Luvisotto Marinho
3 Professor

name here
Marcela A de Oliveira Santana
4 MD * ORCID logo

CORRESPONDENCE

*Dr Marcela A de Oliveira Santana

AFFILIATIONS

1 Rural Seeds, Brazil; and Universidade Evangélica de Goiás, Goiás, Brazil

2 Universidade Evangélica de Goiás, Goiás, Brazil

3 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás (PUC/GO), Goiás, Brazil

4 Rural Seeds, Brazil

PUBLISHED

10 January 2023 Volume 23 Issue 1

HISTORY

RECEIVED: 20 September 2022

ACCEPTED: 20 September 2022

CITATION

Cavalcante Paz E Silva A, Araujo Da Rocha R, Luvisotto Marinho J, De Oliveira Santana MA.  The use of health education strategies and art in rural health prevention focusing on alcohol abuse/addiction and other drugs. Rural and Remote Health 2023; 23: 8116. https://doi.org/10.22605/RRH8116

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONSgo to url

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

go to urlCited by

no pdf available, use your browser's print function to create one


abstract:

Introduction: Health education is a relevant strategy to prevent alcohol and other drugs addiction. The objective of this study is to analyze health education strategies used to prevent drug abuse and addiction in rural areas.

Methods: This study is an integrative review. The study included articles indexed in Virtual Health Library, Periodicals Portal bases from CAPES, Brazilian Digital Library of Theses, PubMed, and SciELO. Relationships between health education strategies and art were sought, without obtaining satisfactory results.

Results: The selection of studies obtained 1173 articles. After exclusion, 21 publications were included in the sample. The predominant country of origin of articles was the USA, with 14 references. The lack of Latin American articles is highlighted. Overall, among the interventions carried out with a focus on preventing addiction to alcohol and other drugs, those that considered the specific cultural context of the studied community were relevant. Strategies adapted to the rural context must be built according to local values, beliefs, and practices. Motivational Interviewing proved to be an effective intervention for alcohol addiction harm reduction strategies.

Discussion: The frequency of harmful use of alcohol and other drugs in the rural population highlights the need to implement public policies focused on local communities. It is essential to adopt actions focused on health promotion. There is a need for further studies on health education strategies, including their relationships with the arts, in the context of preventing drug abuse in the rural population, in order to enable more effective interventions.

You might also be interested in:

2022 - Self-reported chronic back pain in the elderly living in rural riverine areas in the Amazon

2016 - Young people and snowmobiling in northern Norway: accidents, injury prevention and safety strategies

2011 - Student opinions on a rural placement program in New South Wales, Australia

This PDF has been produced for your convenience. Always refer to the live site https://www.rrh.org.au/journal/article/8116 for the Version of Record.