A Hepatite C é uma doença que afeta cerca de 30% das pessoas com HIV/aids em todo o mundo. Este trabalho teve por objetivo caracterizar o grau de conhecimento, de percepção, questões correlacionais e de segurança dos profissionais de enfermagem sobre a co-infecção aids/hepatite C, em um hospital especializado em doenças transmissíveis, localizado no interior do Estado de São Paulo – Brasil, no período de outubro de 2005 a novembro de 2006. Trata-se de um estudo exploratório de natureza qualitativa, realizado com 14 profissionais de enfermagem que atuam no referido hospital. Avaliou-se, também, a caracterização dos mesmos quanto à idade, sexo, tempo na profissão e tempo na instituição, por meio de perguntas fechadas. Pôde-se identificar a falta de informação dos profissionais sobre a doença; ausência de política de treinamento e capacitação dos mesmos pela instituição e ainda o desconhecimento das formas de transmissão, gerando a utilização exagerada e sem critério de equipamentos de proteção. É necessária a capacitação e atualização das equipes de enfermagem sobre a doença, em especial os profissionais com mais tempo de formados, contribuindo assim para melhora das condições de trabalho e da qualidade da assistência de enfermagem oferecida.
This research aimed at identifying the knowledge of nursing assistants on Family Health Strategies for tuberculosis treatment. It is a descriptive and prospective study with a quantitative approach performed with 29 professionals of 16 Family Health Teams in the Municipality of São Carlos-São Paulo. A questionnaire based on material from the São Paulo State Secretary of Health was applied. Weaknesses in the knowledge on treatment, vaccination and tuberculosis symptomatology were identified. We believe that such gaps may compromise early case detection, treatment advice and clarification of doubts on the condition. Therefore, it is necessary to implement ongoing education strategies on the subject for these professionals, once they have a key role in tuberculosis control and patient treatment adherence.
Hepatitis C is a recent disease—it appeared just over a decade ago—and has demanded that nursing professionals study and constantly update their knowledge so as to provide effective assistance. Information technologies, in turn, are increasingly present in today’s world and can greatly facilitate the performance of everyday activities. Objective: this study aims at evaluating a distant education (DE) course on hepatitis C offered to nursing students. Methodology: it is an end-of-course assignment based on an applied research project of a transversal nature. Its participants are thirty-seven 3rd and 4th-year nursing students from Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. The DE course was offered on a MOODLE virtual learning platform. Results and discussion: out of the thirty-seven students that initially showed interest in the course and consented to participate in the research only twenty-nine enrolled in the module (78%) and thirteen completed it (45%). The average number of accesses to the virtual environment was 114, while this number reached 515 in the beginning module of the course and 141 in the final one. The participants’ final knowledge on hepatitis C improved by 50% when compared to the results of a pre-assessment. Their final average grade was 7.5 (0-10 scale). The drop-out rate in this educational mode is still quite high (55%) — its main causes being the participants’ deficient organization of study time and difficulties related to prompt access to computers and Internet services. Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that DE is a viable strategy for the continued education of health professionals. To this end, however, variables such as students’ study time and ready access to computers and the Internet should be carefully dimensioned.
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