Health Education and Permanent Health Education in Intellectual Disability: scientific production, training and intervention proposal
Health Education, Continuing Health Education, Intellectual Disability, Adolescents, Functionality
Intellectual Disability (ID) is a Neurodevelopmental Disorder characterized by functional deficits in adaptive behavior and intelligence. Health Education (ES) and Permanent Health Education (EPS) are fundamental paradigms for understanding actions in the field of Public Health Policies in the country. The objective of the present research is to analyze ES and EPS as health care strategies for people with ID. The specific objectives are 1) to analyze the scientific production on Health Education for people with ID in the national scenario, 2) to analyze the insertion of the ID axis in the State Plans for Permanent Education in Health (PEEPS), 3) To map contributions from Neuropsychology, in terms of intervention, with the description of a service aimed at children and adolescents with ID and 4) Elaborate an intervention proposal for adolescents with ID. Methodology: The research is divided into three studies. The first is an integrative literature review with documental research, in which descriptive, old studies were identified, with low conceptual operationalization and few intervention proposals in the ES axis and low frequency of specific guidelines for ID with little budget forecast in the EPS axis. The second is a theoretical-descriptive study that identified as main therapeutic targets in Sensory-Motor Functioning, Language, Attention, Executive Functions and Socioemotional Functioning with emphasis on concrete activities and mediated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and as main actions of intervention to psychoeducation and interventions in support of Individualized Teaching Plans and Singular Therapeutic Projects. The third is an intervention proposal, developed from the multidimensional, biopsychosocial and hierarchical model of the ICF, built on the basis of intervention protocols and technical materials on ID and which was designed to contemplate as a therapeutic target the three axes of Adaptive Behavior, social, conceptual and practical skills, as well as the ICF Activity/Participation subcomponents.