Profile and perceptions of health and aesthetics of Biomedicine students: implications for acting in aesthetic Biomedicine

Resumo

With the aim of investigating the profile and concepts of health and aesthetics and its implications in the choice to work in Aesthetic Biomedicine, a qualitative-quantitative research was carried out with students of a Biomedicine course of a private education institution in a city in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The students answered an online questionnaire with 14 objective questions and 2 open questions. The data obtained were processed and analyzed using the theoretical and methodological framework of Implicative Statistical Analysis, with the CHIC software support. Forty students answered the questionnaire. They were about 23 years old and were enrolled in different semesters. Nineteen students showed interest in the esthetics area, and eight expressed interest in working in the area. Those students who expressed interest in working in the area and those who said they had no interest in it expressed a similar perception in relation to aesthetics, as they related it to beauty, self-esteem and well-being. In relation to health, all participants demonstrated an expanded perception of health, since they evoked terms that reflect well-being, care, physical and food health, among others. The Implicative Statistical Analysis showed a tendency for students to understand that aesthetics is a factor that mobilizes health care and that it is an expanding and very promising field of action.