Empoderamento de Adolescentes a partir das Intervenções Educativas em Saúde: Uma Revisão Integrativa

Objective: to identify the types and methods for measuring the empowerment of adolescents in vulnerability context and who participated in educational health interventions. Methods: integrative review conducted through the following databases: Web of Science, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Pubmed, Science Direct, ADOLEC and Scopus. Results: The majority of the analyzed studies demonstrated empowerment from a psychological/individual perspective. In order visualize the potential of adolescents, focus on the subjectivity that foster the battle in a context of social inequalities, and collective and social class empowerment need to be further explored in educational health interventions. Final considerations: There is a lack of specific instruments to measure this particular construct, given its complexity and legitimacy as a requirement for building knowledge that is committed to the potential for transforming reality, promoting individual and collective health.