Youth empowerment in health: a theoretical structure of literacy practices

• Author(s): Nascimento, Marcela Martins da Silva ; Rosário, Rafaela ; Galvão, Dulce Maria Pereira Garcia ; Silva, Rayane Gomes Medeiros da ; Soares, Karla Hellen Dias ; Leandro, Vitória Carla Conceição Almeida ; Monteiro, Estela Maria Leite Meirelles ; Barros, Mariana Boulitreau Siqueira Campos
• Date: 2023
• Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/94687
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Adolescent; Empowerment; Health literacy; Adolescente; Alfabetización en salud; Empoderamiento; Letramento em saúde; Empoderamento
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Universidade do Minho

Description

Objective: To develop a theoretical structure on literacy practices committed to health empowerment, based on the understanding of school adolescents and members of a Quilombola community in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil. Method: Interpretative analysis, based on the assumptions of the Grounded Theory and Symbolic Interactionism. For data collection, Culture Circles were conducted with 18 adolescents from October 2020 to August 2021. Results: The theoretical archetype is structured based on the recognition of vulnerable youth context, and the development of potential through collective relations built by dialogue, trust, shared knowledge construction, and the use of technologies. Final considerations: The theoretical structure on literacy practices committed to empowerment through the understanding of adolescents runs through the framework of a substantive theory that culminates in a perspective of agency and recognition of their needs.