Publications by authors named "Aline Megumi Arakawa-Belaunde"

Objective: To identify health promotion strategies used by managers in primary health care.

Method: Qualitative research, of a participant action nature, which adopted the Culture Circle proposed by Paulo Freire as its methodological reference. Eleven primary health care managers from a medium-sized municipality in southern Brazil took part.

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Objectives: to understand the repercussions of teaching work in remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic in Higher Education Institutions in northern Santa Catarina.

Methods: a qualitative participatory action research, based on Paulo Freire's theoretical-methodological precepts. Seventeen health professors participated in two Virtual Culture Circles held in the first half of 2021.

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Purpose: To analyze the perception of professionals constituting Family Health Support Centers (FHSC) of a capital in the South Region of Brazil regarding the role of speech-language therapy professionals in primary care (PC).

Method: This is a qualitative, observational cross-sectional study. All professionals constituting the FHSC who voluntarily agreed to collaborate with the research participated in this study.

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Purpose: To verify subjective memory complaints and their relation to verbal fluency in older people participating in community groups.

Methods: An epidemiological quantitative study performed in community groups for older people in Florianópolis, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Data were collected by structured interview using the Memory Complaint Questionnaire (MAC-Q) and the Verbal Fluency Test (VFT) by semantic categories "animals/minute".

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