2015, Number 1
Educative intervention aimed at health workers about the case-finding of individuals with tuberculosis respiratory symptoms
Language: Spanish
References: 19
Page: 46-56
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ABSTRACT
Objective: to establish the level of knowledge about the case-finding actions for detection of patients with tuberculosis respiratory symptoms in health workers.Methods: cross-sectional descriptive study of 471 health workers based in public and private institutions of two Bogota neighborhoods in the period of September 2012 through January 2013. Before and after the educative intervention, the participants' knowledge was evaluated. The ethical aspects were taken into account.
Results: before the intervention, lack of knowledge was detected in answers about the detection of people with respiratory symptoms as suspected of tuberculosis, about the tests that should be performed to confirm or rule out the diagnosis and the recommendations for sputum-taking for bacilloscopy. After the intervention, the level of knowledge on these topics rose from 8 % to 25 %.
Conclusions: poor basic knowledge about the active case-finding of suspected tuberculosis patients exists, hence the importance of carrying out educative interventions aimed at health workers in charge of taking care of patients, in order to raise their levels of knowledge and to improve respiratory symptom case-finding strategies, thus contributing to timely diagnosis of people with pulmonary tuberculosis.
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