LUDIC EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AS A TEACHING TOOL AND PREVENTION OF ENTEROPARASITOSIS

Introduction/Objectives. Parasitic infections have a high prevalence in developing countries. Educational activities in health diffuses knowledge about prevention and control of parasitoses. Extension Project of Parasitology Laboratory Open for Community and Field Activities (LAPAR/UESC) aims at the development of recreational and educational activities that allow the target audience a dynamic understanding of parasitic problems. Methodology: Action took place among November 2015 and January 2016, with children 4-6 years of a public school (Ilheus-BA). Lectures were given to parents to instruct them on the proper way to collect the feces and importance of the exam in three samples. Later on, feces samples has been recevied, processed and analyzed for the diagnosis of parasitic diseases. After the study of local community profile, educational games were developed; puppet theater, in a focused approach to the prevention of parasitic diseases. Results/Conclusion:Extension projects of LAPAR had been existed for 12 years, and in the last two years they has helped approximately 3,000 individuals, involving schools, kindergartens, NGOs and small villages in southern Bahia. Educational activities inserted and developed in university extension projects intended to contribute to the prevention and control of parasitic diseases. Although the project has already occurred this school before, it is noticeable that it still does need continued actions of sensitization of parents / students as a more effective participation in all stages of the project as widespread knowledge results in people‘s habits change, a result of teaching and learning, and culminates in improving the population‘s quality of life.