Health intervention proposal during primary care for tuberculosis prevention: an observational cross-sectional study
International Journal of Development Research
Health intervention proposal during primary care for tuberculosis prevention: an observational cross-sectional study
Received 08th April, 2022; Received in revised form 20th May, 2022; Accepted 21st June, 2022; Published online 30th July, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Carla Patrícia Carlos et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a health intervention to improve the knowledge of SUS patients about tuberculosis, after analyzing the epidemiological profile of this disease in a municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, based on the cases reported in the System of Tuberculosis Notification from 2006 to 2015. This intervention was carried out by the application of a questionnaire about this disease to users of the primary health service, before and after the delivery of an explanatory pamphlet containing various information in a simplified way about tuberculosis. The results were tabulated and statistically analyzed. Of the 1,281 cases reported during this period, the majority were males aged between 30 and 39 years and had studied for four to seven years. The analysis of the questionnaires showed that the interviewees' knowledge improved concerning most of the disease criteria after the delivery of the pamphlet. In this way, it is concluded that the intervention method, using the explanatory pamphlet on tuberculosis, proved to be efficient, in general, in making users of the Basic Health Unit aware of various aspects of tuberculosis.
