O efeito da intervenção educativa no conhecimento sobre fatores de risco cardiovascular entre os pacientes da área de abrangência da ESF de Santa Rita

Abstract

Considering the present as in the high morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular diseases both in the world and in Brazil; Our health team Basic Unit of Santa Rita, municipality of Santa Luzia in Minas Gerais, conducted the situation analysis of the coverage area. It was observed high incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, most of them modifiable. Based on this knowledge we decided to prepare a proposal for educational intervention to improve the level of knowledge about risk factors and cardiovascular disease in adult patients in our area. The methodology was performed in three steps: realization of situational diagnosis, literature review and development of a plan of action. In this study the following critical nodes were found: lack of knowledge of the population about cardiovascular risk factors, inadequate living habits, insufficient infrastructure of health services as well as health team working process of inappropriate family. On this basis it has been developed various educational themes to be applied to projects created beams such as "better informed" to increase the population's level of knowledge about cardiovascular risk factors, "Healthier" to change habits and lifestyles, "Health Comfortable" to improve the structure of the service for the care of patients with cardiovascular risk factors and "Caring for You" to deploy the type of care for attention to patients with cardiovascular risk factors improved in this way the work process team. We consider this work very important contribution in the experiences of team work, can serve as a starting point and motivation for future studies on this topic by other health professionals and helps to improve the health status of our community.