Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP (Aug 2015)

Family Health Strategy professionals' view on the effects of Hansen's disease training

  • Ana Lúcia Alves de Souza,
  • Katia Virginia de Oliveira Feliciano,
  • Marina Ferreira de Medeiros Mendes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0080-623420150000400011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 49, no. 4
pp. 0610 – 0618

Abstract

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OBJECTIVEEvaluating how professionals of family health teams from three municipalities of Pernambuco perceive and interpret the effects of Hansen's disease training.METHODSA qualitative study using the perspective of Habermas. Six focus groups, totaling 33 nurses and 22 doctors were formed. The guide consisted of: reactions to training, learning, transfer of knowledge and organizational results.RESULTSThere were recurrent positive opinions on instructor performance, course materials, and an alert attitude to the occurrence of cases; the negative points were about lack of practical teaching, a lot of information in a short period of time and little emphasis on basic content. Low perceived self-efficacy and low locus of control, ambiguity, conflict of skills and the lack of support for the learning application. Nurses showed greater dissatisfaction with the organizational support.CONCLUSIONThe low effectiveness of training reveals the need to negotiate structured training from work problematization, considering performance conditions.

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