Avaliação da percepção e uso da babosa para fins terapêuticos, por acadêmicos de uma instituição de ensino superior em Maringá, PR

Abstract

Aloe Vera is a plant of African origin, used for medicinal purposes throught centuries, mostly due to its healing and moisturizing properties. This research aims to evaluate the knowledge and the uses of Aloe Vera for academics from an institution of high education in the county of Maringá. The research has exploratory and descriptive character, in which participants came to a total of 929 students enrolled in three distinct courses, of which one of each field of the Sciences (biological and health, human and exact). After the sample calculation, a sample of 273 students were obtained and divided proportionally between the courses. Data collection was carried out in a private institution of higher education in the city of Maringá-PR, during the period between July and August. The respondents were approached by means of a questionnaire, based on the questionnaire of OLIVEIRA, MACHADO and RODRIGUES, (2014). First, the data was grouped and submitted for analysis descriptive statistics to obtain charts and tables of frequency, later analyses were performed in the software R version 3.3.1, (R Development Core Team, 2016). With the results, it was possible to realize that there is no significant association between the use and knowledge of Aloe Vera with the academic area, being worrysome the lack of understanding about the harms and adverse effects even on the part of the students in the biological and health field. Thus, it is concluded that there is a lack of knowledge about the subject, and it is necessary to insert it during the academic Formation.