HEALTH EDUCATION: INTERVENTION IN THE FAMILY‘S CONTEXT.

INTRODUCTION: The family doctor, from family visits, should be able to plan, organize, develop and evaluate actions that respond to community needs. OBJECTIVE: By carrying out this work, we know more concretely how is family physician‘s role and together the family that follow, seeking to establish a therapeutic plan with the family so that the child weaning gradually substituting breastfeeding for other foods. METHODS: This work is a case study of educational intervention in family health, being structured on the basis of the methodology of the 5 A‘s: analysis, advice, agreement, assistance and monitoring. The work was put into practice through three residential visits carried out by medical students at the University of Fortaleza, with the help of their teachers. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Analyzing the everyday of the family, we noticed that Mrs V. still didn’t introduce solid foods to his son, who is already one year and seven months old. Besides, the patient suffered from arthralgia, which she didn’t treat because she feared that the medication will harm his son because of the breast milk, and she refuses to stop breastfeeding until her son is two years old. So, we advised her to introduce new tastes and textures in a gradual process, according to a research made by the students. We concluded that, after the time we were with the family, the patient had progress, because the child was eating more solid foods, but she was still a little resistant in stop breastfeeding her son in a gradual way.