Guía edu-comunicacional para facilitar el acceso a contenidos sobre prevención de COVID-19 para el club de adultos mayores del Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado Parroquial Rural de Picaihua, 2020-2021.

Abstract

The objective was to design an edu-communicative guide to facilitate access to content about COVID-19 prevention for the senior citizen club of the Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado Parroquial de Picaihua in Ambato. All of this is with the purpose of establishing educative content through some experts’ criteria in order to promote health; based on the characteristics of the volunteering group that was part of this research. The Bland-Altman graphic method was applied to validate the educational tools and a survey to evaluate the perceptions of the senior citizens in relation to the educative guide and the videos. It was considered an object population of 85 participants at the senior citizen club. It was shown the necessity of connecting IT to daily life that permits old people to increase and improve their social and individual development, teach health, and provide information and knowledge that allow them to acquire healthy behavior. It can be concluded that from the point of view of health promotion, it is essential to mention the three levels of prevention. The first one permits to promote health and prevent illnesses. The second one avoids the progress of the illness with the support of recovery processes (recovering health with pharmacology), and the third one restores sick people in a physical, mental, and social way with the purpose of reducing the illness. Finally, it is recommended to governmental authorities implement edu-communicative tools with relevant health topics in order to reduce illnesses.