Importância da educação continuada na atenção básica de saúde para um atendimento livre de preconceito ao paciente soropositivo para HIV

Abstract

After an intervention carried out in the form of an informative lecture for 56 professionals who worked with three family health strategies in the city of Santa Maria, RS, a transversal, descriptive study was carried out in October 2016. This study is a cut of the research and intervention project entitled "HIV/AIDS and Prejudice", developed by residents of three professional areas, characterizing them a multiprofessional team: pharmacy, nutrition and psychology. The objective was to analyze the level of basic knowledge about HIV infection, verifying the existence of HIV/AIDS-related prejudice among professionals working in family health strategies. Before informative lecture addressing basic aspects of HIV infection, treatment and the existing prejudice, a questionnaire was used to assess prior knowledge on the subject. Afterwards, the multiprofessional team gave an informative lecture addressing the mentioned aspects, and a new questionnaire was applied to verify the impact of the intervention. It was verified that the knowledge about the subject among the participants was satisfactory, since only 14.3% presented a degree of success of less than 70%, but this knowledge is not homogeneous among some professional segments. The prejudice was not admitted by most participants, although they considered that the lecture changed the way to see the person living with HIV/AIDS, which leads to the conclusion that the intervention has achieved the proposed aim to clarify and reduce veiled prejudices.