Educative action for community health agents in the prevention and control of syphilis

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Keila Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Sousa, Anna Jéssica Carvalho, Lima, Raimunda Lívia Farias, Xavier, Ana Samyha, Silva, Maria Adelane Monteiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.unifor.br/RBPS/article/view/2692
• topic: Health Promotion; Syphilis; Health Education.; Promoción de la Salud; Sífilis; Educación em Salud.; Promoção da Saúde; Sífilis; Educação em Saúde.

Objective: To describe the experience of educative actions involving the Community Health Agents (CHA) for the prevention and control of syphilis cases in Sobral, Ceará. Data synthesis: This is the account of an interventionist experience, held in the period from June to July 2012 in a Family Health Center of Sobral, Ceará, identified as the one with the highest incidence of syphilis in the county in the year 2011. An average of 20 CHA participated in the actions. The educational approach went through the phases of planning, implementation and evaluation. Planning consisted in the identification of the service territory, epidemiologic data and the participants in the action. The implementation process occurred in two meetings, organized in three stages: embracement; development, in which the participants’ prior knowledge was investigated, and a talking circle was facilitated for the topic discussion; and closing. Evaluation was performed from the point of view of both the CHA and the facilitators. Some weakness was noticed in knowledge regarding transmission, symptoms, and other aspects of the disease. The talking circle provided opportunity for the CHA to raise questions, for discussions about the feelings generated by the diagnosis, and sensitization to the importance of requesting syphilis screening. Conclusion: The educational activity with the CHA contributed to strengthening those professionals’ work on the prevention and control of syphilis. The discussions, questionings, and the generated intervention proposals are seen as favourable to the learning on the subject. doi: 10.5020/18061230.2014.p422