USE OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT AMAZON BIODIVERSITY FOR AESTHETIC HEALTH CARE FOR WORKERS AMABELA RURALS

Brazil has a wide variety of cultures and ethnicities which results in a collection of knowledge that is passed on between generations. Among this knowledge, we highlight those related to the use of plants and parts of animals for therapeutic purposes, being one of the practices aimed at aesthetic health care. Thus, the character that stands out in relation to this traditional knowledge and knowledge are the women, who for cultural and gender reasons, have become the main responsible for the health care in the family context. In this sense, the main objective of this research is to elucidate the traditional knowledge about Amazonian biodiversity for care with aesthetic health by rural workers of the Association of Rural Women Workers of the Municipality of Belterra (AMABELA). This research will be a case study, with descriptive character and will have a quantitative and qualitative approach, in addition, it will be carried out women belonging to AMABELA. This association is made up of about 45 women, all being invited to participate in the research, which after explaining the project, if accept they must sign the Informed Consent Form (TCLE). Initially there will be a semi-structured interview with these women, in which there will be socio questions demographics and issues related to the knowledge and use of plants and animals for aesthetic health care. The second part of this study will be through the application of a questionnaire called Body Image Satisfaction Scale (ESIC), composed by 25 objective questions, whose answers are according to a Likert-type scale with five points (where point 1 refers to Strongly Disagree and, point 5, Strongly Agree). Results will be stored in Microsoft Excel 2013® 2013 and Microsoft Word® 2013, in which the answers will be analyzed qualitatively through analysis of content and quantitatively by calculating relative frequency and absolute frequency (%) of occurrence of the phenomena. The research was approved by the Ethics Committee in Research, obeying Resolution No. 466/12 of the National Health Council, whose number of opinion is 4,265,700 and is currently in the data collection phase.