Efetividade de ações educativas na modalidade remota sobre saúde auditiva de adultos e idosos para agentes comunitários de saúde

Abstract

This study aimed to verify the effectiveness of a proposal for an educational activity, in remote format, for Community Health Workers (CHWs) of Santa Maria/RS about themes related to hearing, and to verify if there is any relation between the level of knowledge acquired and the variants age, length of service and education. Cross-sectional quantitative research was carried out from August to October 2021, in which 44 active CHWs participated in the data collection period, who were present at the three proposed meetings, and who agreed to participate in the study. The meetings took place through the Google Meet platform and data collection took place through the application, before and after the educational activities, of Quizzes containing problem situations, prepared by Google Forms. The topics covered in the activities were: 1) hearing, 2) health/hearing disorders, 3) organization and operation of the Hearing Health Care Service (HHCS), 4) notions about the use, handling, and cleaning of hearing aids and 5) importance of the return of users to HHCS. The compiled data were analyzed using the chi-square statistical and equality of two proportions tests (p<0.05). It can be seen a significant increase in the rate of correct answers in the Quiz after training topics 1(p=0.002), 2(p=0.001), 3, and 4(p<0.001), as well as in the level of knowledge acquired about the first four themes (p<0.001), however, the level of knowledge acquired is not related to the variants studied. Thus, it can be concluded that the educational actions proved to be effective, promoting a significant increase in the level of knowledge on most of the topics covered, however, this is not related to the variants of age, length of service, and education