Via oral de conforto em idosos hospitalizados: percepção da equipe multiprofissional

Abstract

The objective was to analyze the perception of the multidisciplinary team about the use of the comfort oral route in the elderly before and after training. This is a cross-sectional and descriptive study, carried out with professionals from the multidisciplinary team of a University Hospital. A questionnaire was applied before and after training on the use of the comfort oral route. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis were performed with Pearson's chi-square test (5% significance level). Has participated 21 professionals of health from different professions. The average age of the sample was 31.86 years, and the majority had from one to ten years of professional practice and were in Nursing. In the association between the pre- and post-training responses, only the question related to the release of oral feeding for a patient even with risk of aspiration was statistically significant (p=0.003), indicating that the training was an effective tool, since that there was a favorable or contrary position of the professionals who had indicated in the first questionnaire that they did not know how to answer the question. It was concluded that the knowledge of the multidisciplinary team regarding the applicability of the oral comfort route in hospitalized elderly is still incipient and the training proved to be a useful tool to qualify care in the hospital setting.