Conhecimentos dos enfermeiros e médicos da estratégia saúde da Família de um município do alto sertão paraibano acerca da tuberculose.

Abstract

In Brazil the decentralization of tuberculosis control actions resulted in the incorporation of numerous activities for primary care, going to be managed and organized not by the national and state levels, but to the local levels. Thus, the teams of the Family Health Strategy are responsible for planning and implementing disease prevention actions, diagnosis and treatment in a comprehensive and continuously. The study aimed to investigate the knowledge of nurses and ESF doctors about tuberculosis, check the training of nurses and ESF doctors to work in tuberculosis control actions in primary care and list the difficulties of professionals to work in the control actions disease. It is a study of descriptive, cross-sectional, with a quantitative approach, carried out with 10 nurses and 09 doctors through a semi-structured questionnaire. Data collection was carried out between August and September 2015 on the Committee of Ethics in Research of the Teacher Training Center of the Federal University of Campina Grande. Data were analyzed from the simple descriptive statistics and the results presented in tables by frequency and percentage. The data shows that there is a higher turnover of nursing professionals in the service, however, participate in more training on tuberculosis. Both categories know the signs and symptoms and risk factors of the disease, diagnostic tests, the smear control when submitting cases to the secondary / tertiary referral services, and the purpose of the Directly Observed Treatment (DOT). There are weaknesses in knowledge, both by nurses as by doctors, adverse effects on the basic outline, prevention and operation of DOT. Composition of the therapeutic regimen, guidelines to carry out the smear of sputum, guidelines / care and necessary behavior during treatment are information of greater knowledge of nurses. For both, the main difficulties for carrying out the tuberculosis control actions in the ESF are related to infrastructure / team. It was concluded that nurses and doctors need greater encouragement and reinforcement to work in tuberculosis control actions in the city, needing to invest in frequent training to cover most professionals