Investigação do procedimento de higenização dos brinquedos em centros de convivência infantil

• Autor(a) principal: Simão, Evelise Pires Cogo [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108845
• topic: Brinquedos - Esterilização; Enfermagem; Crianças - Assistencia em instituições; Crianças - Cuidado e higiene; Toys Sterilization

Introduction: Toys enable nursing care qualification and extension because they provide a range of possibilities that can temper children’s coping with several different situations, by which means they can express feelings and establish confidence ties with the professionals that care for them. However, there is evidence in the literature that toys are vehicles of microorganism transmission and a source of cross-infection. Objective: To investigate how toys used in day-care centers and their storage sites are sanitized. Method: Descriptive, cross-sectional study in which the day-care centers in fifteen cities belonging to the CIR Consortiums of DRS II in Araçatuba-SP comprised the observation unit. The object of investigation was the sanitization of toys and their storage sites, where the information about the variables were obtained by means of interviews and recorded on an online questionnaire. Results: Was identified the use of toys made of plastic and fabric, which corresponded to 29.5% in city-run institutions and to 31.3% in associated institutions. As regards the periodicity adopted for toy sanitization procedures, 40.0% of the associated institutions and 22.0% of the city-run day-care centers reported to sanitize them once a week; however 14.6% of the city-run centers reported not performing the procedure. Conclusion: Most of the institutions studied showed the intention to perform the sanitization procedure for toys and their storage sites. Remarks: It is necessary to instrumentalize professionals so that they can deal with the issue that toys can be a potential reservoir of microorganisms and a source of cross-infection by including this topic in their curricula during their education as a strategy to reduce aggravations and diseases that affect children attended to by these institutions. Due to the lack of establishment of protocols and routines for such procedure, we have designed ...