Art in Health Education: A Transformation in Teaching and Learning About One Self and One’s Disease

To verify the knowledge gained by hypertensive elderly users of the Brazilian Unified Health System SUS, intervention group, when they have access to the artistic and education video “An Impressioning Story” compared to hypertensive elderly people in the SUS, control group (received a traditional lecture). The video aimed to promote the correct and safe use of medicines, promote knowledge about hypertension and non-pharmacological practices for the tratment of the disease. Methods: A quasi-experiment was carried out to assess the significant knowledge gain before and after the lecture or video. To analyze the results, we performed the Shapiro-Wilks normality test and ANOVA for both groups: Control (N=16) and Intervention (N=17) and internally in the same group. Each group included elderly people belonging to the HiperDia group of the Municipal Community Health Centers (CSC), randomly drawn, belonging to the city of Palmas, Capital of Tocantins. Results: The mean difference value found for the Control Group and th Intervention Group, before and after the application of the lecture or video, were significant for a 95% confidence interval. Indicating that the means found in the pre and post test within the same group (p=0.00), as well as the means found between the groups (p=0.001) was statistically significant. The ANOVA test compared the knowledge gain between the Control (p=0.019) and intervention (p=0.000) groups. The Intervention group had greater knowledge gain (0.8 points on average) than the Control Group (0.2 points). Conclusion: From the results obtained, it is concluded that video is a tool that promotes knowledge gain compared to the standard methodology of knowledge transfer (lecture).