“What benefits and what damages my mental health?” - Children’s perceptions regarding an after-school program ,

Martins, Bruna Melo; Cervelino, Paula Maria; Cid, Maria Fernanda Barboza

doi:10.1590/1980-6248-2020-0010

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ARTICLES • Pro-Posições 33 • 2022 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-6248-2020-0010EN linkcopy

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The aim of the study herein is to explore the perceptions of 23 children aged 9 to 11 years of age, regarding the factors present in the context of an after-school program, which favor and harm their mental health. The photo-voice resource was used to produce the data. The analyzes of the photographs produced were made collectively. Playing, sports, educational activities and contact with nature were identified as favoring mental health; bullying and other violence practices were perceived as harmful. It was found that the children demonstrated clarity about what affects them, therefore, listening to them seems to be a path for the processes of elaborating policies and actions that in fact seek to protect them.

Keywords children; participatory research; child mental health; photo-voice; after-school program

	Activity	Objectives
1^st and 2^nd meetings	I. Division of the class into 3 groups; II. Explanation of Photo-Voice steps; III. Demonstration of equipment (cameras); IV. Capture of photos; V. Register of explanations of photos in audio and on paper.	a) Learning about the Photo-Voice process – discussion of doubts, opinions and collective construction of strategies for the internal organization of the groups; b) Individual capture of 6 photos – 3 that represent what favors and 3 that represent what harms their own mental health. c) Verbal description of the photographed images.
3^rd meeting	I. Distribution of printed photos corresponding to each group; II. Choice of photos and composition of posters with the themes of Photo-voice by each group; IV. Explanatory collective audio recording by each group.	a) Provide space for analysis, debate and group reflection on factors that favor and factors that harm Mental Health, in search of a group consensus in the synthesis of information for the poster; b) Elaboration of at least two final visual products per group, which portray their perceptions/conclusions on the themes.
4^th meeting	I. Reading of speeches corresponding to group audios; II. Completion of posters; III. Collective discussion about possibilities for exhibiting the material produced.	a) Group validation of the textual description/caption of each poster, prepared by the researchers from the audios; b) Conclusion of the activity.

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“What benefits and what damages my mental health?” - Children’s perceptions regarding an after-school program ¹, ² ³ ⁴