Educational activities about storage and correct disposal of medicines: experience report with children audience

ABSTRACT Children awareness on the rational use and appropriate medicines-related practices encourages transformation through early childhood education and boosts the multiplication of such knowledge in families. In this perspective, the aim of this work is to report the experience of actions awareness with children aiming to guide and divulge the correct way of storage and disposal of medicines carried out by an extension program of an institution of higher education. The activities were carried out in two rural public schools of a municipality of the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, involving pre-school students to the 8th year of elementary school. They were planned and organized by extensionists, who led the approach to the topics through oral questions, negotiated orientation, with support of audiovisual resource and content assimilation quiz. The public, of approximately 125 people, showed acceptance and interest on the subject, participating with initial reports of practices adopted in their residences and answering the quiz questions at the end of the activities. The learning of children’s information and the motivation for appropriate practices and the multiplication of knowledge have been verified. The educational activities were positive and could be subsidies for actions of health education, in other locations.