The interaction process between medical students and families in a context of community health promotion: the case “one student, one family” at Lúrio University (Napula)

Abstract

This work aims to address the main features of communication used by students from Lúrio University (Nampula, Mozambique) in the family health promotion process under the project "one student, one family". Therefore, reflections on interpersonal communication were made, based on the analysis of verbal and nonverbal language, and the relationship/interaction between medical student and family during their conversation. This is a qualitative exploratory study using observation by video recording during the meetings between medical student and family. For data analysis, conversation analysis was used. For the research, we used as scenario, the Muatala community where the Unilúrio project took place, and the families are composed of several members living in the same house. And therefore, we worked with 10 medical students who attend different courses and different semester. From the results found it is necessary to highlight the relevance that medicine student and the environment exert in their interaction to the visited families; It was clear enough that there is an insecurity for the student of what he is going to speak in the meeting. It has been in a pacific way he sits down each one accept his mistakes. As a result of that it was concluded that it is worth noting to look at the necessity of developing a work that can make the students be aware of the importance that an effective communication has in the process of interaction between students and the households of Muatala quarter.