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Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas 2015; 14 (2)

Educative Intervention to improve quality of malaria diagnosisin the network of laboratories from Luanda, Republic of Angola

García NP, da Silva F, Fortes F, Sánchez VL, Cantelar FN, Menéndez CRL, Rojas RL

Language: Spanish
References: 23
Page: 241-252
PDF size: 286.87 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction: the malaria still is one of the most important public health problems worldwide, specially the Africa as well as in Angola.
Objectives: the aim was to evaluate the level of theoretical and practical knowledge in malaria diagnosis of a large group of technicians in Luanda before and after of an educational intervention.
Results: after the trainings in the intervention group the scores increased in the theoretical and practical evaluations; while in the control group the scores of evaluations did not change after final evaluations. In the Intervention group the rate of disapproval was 129 times higher in the first evaluation than in final evaluation and this odd was 108 times higher in practical evaluations. Finally, the main topics with errors were identified in the evaluations from the beginning in the intervention and the control groups.
Conclusions: in this study carried out in Luanda, Angola, an improvement of the evaluations was showed in theoretical and practical knowledge of the technicians after intervention in the network of laboratories of the capital province of the country.


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