EDUCATIONAL GROUPS AS HEALTH PROMOTION SPACE, EXCHANGE OF KNOWLEDGE AND REFLECTION

Introduction and Objective: The Support team for Family’s Health (NASF) is a team of professionals that aims to support the Family’s Health Teams. Among the main activities, we have the educational practices in group as a basis for creation of health promotion spaces, exchange of knowledge and reflection. The objective of the following work is to share the experience of the nutritive reeducation group composed by registered and employees of the Clinic of Family Souza Marques, Madureira’s neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. Method: The group was idealized and planned by the NASF’s team composed by nutritionist, psychologist, social worker, physical education teacher, speech therapist and physiotherapist and shared with other professionals. The group is opened, the disclosure is performed by all professionals of the health’s unit, it happens every two weeks, has duration of approximately two hours in which activities are carried out as: anthropometry, sharing of life experiences, chat about a certain theme in health, determination of goals of lifestyle’s changes and creation of themes to be worked out in the next meeting. Results and conclusions: - It has been observed throughout the meetings that the group FRIENDS OF BALANCE besides create a space of stimulus of change eating habits and lifestyle, promotes space of awareness, reflection and living together. Besides this aspect, is being important as practice of matricial support for the professionals involved in the group activities.