A educação em saúde como dispositivo de prevenção das IST’S no ambulatório de pré-natal do Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria (HUSM)

Abstract

This article is a result of a research and intervention performed from the experience of three residents (Social Worker, Speech Therapist and Nutritionist) in the Post-Graduation Program in Multi-professional Residence Integrated in Hospital Management and Attention in the Public Health System with emphasis on maternal-child with the objective to create groups of pregnant women addressing the issue of HIV and syphilis in pregnancy, diagnosis and appropriate treatment through health education actions. This is a descriptive-observational study with a quantitative-qualitative approach performed with 25 pregnant women in the prenatal care from University Hospital of Santa Maria during December 2018. The data were analysed by the application of descriptive analysis. In the view of results obtained was possible to observe that there is a lack of knowledge and/or erroneous information on the part of the pregnant women about the forms of transmission, diagnosis and treatments that are necessary in order to avoid vertical transmission, as well as minimal clarification about their rights. Additionally it was evident that the quality of prenatal care performed is far from ideal, since there is a delay in starting prenatal consultations and in performing serological tests. Thus it concludes that is necessary that the prenatal health team be able to develop health education actions addressing sexually transmitted infections (STI) in a way that complements the individual knowledge of each pregnant woman. It is the most important for health professionals to report worsening health, in this manner collaborating with epidemiological studies, in order to subsidize public health policies.