Casanova MMC, Bayarre VHD, Sanabria RG, Navarro DDA, Trasancos DM

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: experience proves that medical advances knowledge strongly needs to be permanently updated for health professionals in order to optimize health care quality.
Objective: to design a postgraduate course for health care providers, in order for them to apply, in the primary health care level, the most updated knowledge on diabetes mellitus.
Methods: descriptive research using methods of the theoretical and empirical levels, carried out at Hermanos Cruz University Outpatient Polyclinic of Pinar del Río. The health professional population consisted of the totality (84 professionals from the Polyclinic) and is distributed as it follows: physicians (N1= 29), nurses (N2= 30), chiropodists (N3= 8), psychologists (N4= 2), nutritionist (N5= 1), health promotions and education specialist (N6= 1), and physical education professors (N7= 13). The latter ones do not belong to the Polyclinic's staff, but under a work agreement between the Health Ministry and the National Institute of Sports they pay services in the primary health care level.
Results: health providers were necessarily designed a course based on diabetes mellitus education, including contents of health promotion and education, because the identification of the learning needs in the selected providers showed knowledge deficit regarding these topics.
Conclusions: a professional self-improvement plan was elaborated and proposed considering the research outcomes, and theoretical-practical tools were offered for education of type 2 diabetic senior adults.