[Community health workers and tuberculosis control: knowledge and perceptions]. / O agente comunitário de saúde no controle da tuberculose: conhecimentos e percepções.
Cad Saude Publica
; 24(6): 1377-86, 2008 Jun.
Article
em Pt
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18545763
This study analyzes the knowledge of community health workers in tuberculosis control and their self-perceived knowledge and the importance they ascribe to their role in fighting the disease, in Vitória, Espírito Santo State, Brazil. The study adopted a cross-sectional design, with a pre-tested, semi-structured questionnaire completed by 105 randomly selected health workers. The comparison of proportions between the groups formed by stratification according to time-on-the-job used the chi-squared test with 5% significance. Mean age was 34.5 (+/-9.7) years. Sixty-six community health workers (62.9%) had worked on the job for three years or less. Longer time on the job was positively associated with increased understanding of the disease and activities actually performed in TB control. Still, numerous flaws were observed in TB knowledge and control measures among community health workers. Improvements in continuing education for these workers could foster a more effective contribution to detecting new TB cases in the community and improved treatment adherence by patients.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Competência Profissional
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Tuberculose Pulmonar
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Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde
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Agentes Comunitários de Saúde
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Serviços de Saúde Comunitária
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Evaluation_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Humans
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
Pt
Revista:
Cad Saude Publica
Assunto da revista:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
País de publicação:
Brasil