Estratégia de autocuidado com a saúde de idosos rurais-ribeirinhos durante a pandemia de Covid-19

Abstract

Identify self-care strategies with the health of rural/riverside elderly in the Covid 19 pandemic. Method: This is a descriptive research with a qualitative, in which it involves an interpretative approach of the meanings and phenomena studied from the testimonies of the participants collected by Technique of Focal Group, that subsequently they were coded and categorized using Bardin's content analysis. Results: From the data collected, it was coded and categorized, thus obtaining 480 codes, grouped into 7 themes and later united into 3 categories, namely: Caring and preventing Covid 19, Having Faith in God to beat Covid 19 and Using medicine homemade. Conclusion: Through the speeches, self-care activities were identified, such as physical distance, use of masks, gel alcohol, the use of spirituality, faith and prayers in coping with covid and the use of homemade teas as prevention and treatment measures, being important in providing information about the rural/riverside elderly population in order to to assist in the creation of policies that help such a population