Isailda Barros, Coordinator of the National Survey of School Health, and Fernanda Estelita, IBGE Manager of Planning and Administrative Management in the state, met representatives from the Executive Secretariat of Health Surveillance (Sevs) of the City of Recife this Monday (15). The meeting aimed at presenting the fifth edition of the survey, which will go live from March onwards, and at resuming the partnership with the Secretariat of Health of the capital, which had already cooperated with the IBGE State Superintendence in Pernambuco in the previous edition of the survey, in 2019.
From left to right: Leniziane Vanderlei (Sevs Recife), Fernanda Estelita (IBGE), Denise Scripnic (Sevs Recife), Isailda Barros (IBGE) and Yana Lopes (Sevs Recife)
The target audience of the survey are teenagers from the 7th year of Primary School to the 3rd year of Secondary School, with questions on issues that pervade their life, like mental health, bullying and sexuality. These actions are among those suggested to the partnership between Sevs Recife and the IBGE: carrying out a presentation for data collection agents, issuing a circular letter to inform schools about the survey and, in punctual cases, following up the data collection in some schools. The meeting also presented the awareness material to be given to school directors, like a folder, a display and a letter to the directors.
Pernambuco will have the third largest sample in Brazil, including 217 public and private schools in urban and rural areas. Each school will assign one or two classes to take part in the survey, depending on the size. “We need to raise awareness of school directors for them to understand the importance of the survey. To do this, we count with the partnership of the secretariats of Health and Education, both in the state of Pernambuco and in the municipalities,” assesses Isailda Barros. It will be the first time that the survey will include indigenous schools in the state, which demands an additional work of raising awareness of leaders of the indigenous peoples.
The IBGE team was hosted in Sevs Recife by Yana Lopes, head of the Sector of Non-Communicable Diseases, Leniziane Vanderlei, Technician of Surveillance, and Denise Oliveira Scripnic, Technician of Support of Epidemiological Surveillance. “PeNSE is a very important survey for the health in Brazil. We use the data of the survey in our work and we also produced a newsletter to be sent to municipal schools on this theme when the results of the previous edition were released,” points out Scripnic.