Auriculotherapy in primary health care: A large-scale educational experience in Brazil

作     者：Charles Dalcanale Tesser Ari Ojeda Ocampo More Melissa Costa Santos Emiliana Domingues Cunha da Silva Fatima Terezinha Pelachini Farias Lucio Jose Botelho 

作者机构：Department of Public Health Federal University of Santa Catarina Floriandpolis Santa Catarina 88036-800 Brazil Post-graduate Program in Public Health Federal University of Santa Catarina Florianopolis Santa Catarina 88036-800 Brazil Integrative Medicine and Acupuncture Service University Hospital Federal University of Santa Catarina Floriandpolis Santa Catarina 88036-800 Brazil Floriandpolis Municipality Health Office Florianopolis Santa Catarina 88036-800 Brazil 

出 版 物：《Journal of Integrative Medicine》 (结合医学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第17卷第4期

页      面：302-309页

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学科分类：10[医学] 

基　　金：Brazilian municipal and state public health institutions Ministério da Saúde 

主　　题：Auriculotherapy Traditional Chinese medicine Primary health care Health education Distance learning 

摘      要：Auriculotherapy consists of physical stimuli applied to the outer ear and is commonly associated with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The authors present and discuss the development of a course that offers a semi-on-site auriculotherapy course for Brazilian primary health care (PHC) professionals. The course was funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Health and developed at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in 2015 by a team of experts in auriculotherapy. It consisted of 75 h of distance learning (five sequential modules) and 5 h of on-site learning. The modules included the following items:(1) introduction to integrative practices;(2) ear reflexology;(3) introduction to TCM;(4) biomedical view of auriculotherapy;and (5) auriculotherapy in PHC. The teaching material in eluded a workbook for each module, 14 video lectures and an interactive ear(on line resource) to study location and application to the main auricular points. The on-site lectures follow a structured script of ear palpation techniques, auricular seed insertion practice and clinical case discussions, under the supervision of trained instructors. The course was offered in 2016 and 2017 and on-site lectures took place in 25 cities, covering all Brazilian regions, in coordination with municipal or state boards of health. A total of 4273 health professionals concluded the training and their evaluation of the course was highly positive. The Brazilian experience of large-scale training shows the potential to disseminate auriculotherapy in the context of PHC, given that its practice is fast, easy to learn, safe, effective for different health problems and well accepted by the patients.