Efeito de uma intervenção educativa sobre vigilância do desenvolvimento infantil para profissionais da atenção primária à saúde.

Abstract

Child development is a continuous and dynamic process that promotes changes involving many aspects. Child monitoring must be carried out in Primary Health Care, in the Family Health Strategy units. Doctors and nurses are involved in this priority process of child care, who use the child's booklet as an instrument. However, the literature emphasizes the existence of a gap between the professionals' knowledge and the ability to assess child development. Objective: To analyze the effect of an educational intervention on the knowledge and implementation of child development surveillance for professionals in Primary Health Care. Methods: This is a quasi-experimental, non-randomized, before-and-after pre-test study. double, carried out in four municipalities of Paraíba, from January to May 2021. The sample consisted of 15 participants, of which 10 were professional nurses and 5 medical professionals. As an instrument for data collection, a questionnaire on “Knowledge and Implementation of Child Development Surveillance” was used. Data collection took place in four stages, namely, pre-test 1, pre-test 2, educational intervention and post-test. For statistical analysis, data were entered in double entry, and later analyzed using the statistical package Statistic Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 22.0. Results: In the data referring to the comparison between the pairs of scores before and after the intervention, it is observed that there was a significant difference with p<0.05, with the difference between moments 1 and 3 (p=0.04), confirming the alternative hypothesis (H1) (p<0.05) that there is at least one difference between the means of the three groups. Conclusion: In general, there was a difference in the knowledge and implementation of surveillance by the professionals after the intervention, which arouses reflections on the practice of care in childcare, and what it is necessary to understand and intervene in the professionals' work process, to contribute with early detection of developmental changes, timely intervention and stimulation. Thus, it is believed that the study contributed to awakening a rethink about the incorporation of surveillance to child development in the care practice of nurses and physicians who received the training.