LIMA, Kathariny Freire Nogueira.
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
