Prevenção do Câncer do Colo do Útero na Estratégia Saúde da Família: contribuições para a capacitação do Agente Comunitário de Saúde / Prevention of Uterine Cervical Cancer in The Family Health Program: contributions to the empowerment of the Community Health Agent.

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2011

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Introduction: Uterine cervical cancer (UCC) is the second most common malignancy among women in Brazil, the main strategy for early detection of premalignant lesions is the cytopathology. Despite the existence of the screening program there was no reduction in the incidence and mortality rate of UCC in Brazil. The Family Health Strategy has the potential to work in the organization of UCC screening and in this context, one should consider that the Community Health Agents (CHA) play a central role. Objective: Contribute to the training of CHA in preventing UCC. Methodology: Intervention study conducted with the CHA from Goiânia-GO. The training of CHA on the prevention of UCC was conducted. During the training structured questionnaires were used to collect data. For statistical analysis, all variables were evaluated descriptively by calculating the absolute and relative frequencies. Knowledge of CHA on UCC preventing practices before and after training was compared by the McNemar test, adopting a 5% error. Results: There was a lack of knowledge of CHA about the prevention of UCC before the training. We observed the improvement of knowledge after the training, especially in relation to the purpose of cytopathology, the proper preparation of women for their achievement, on the causative agent of UCC and the results of cytopathology (p <0,05). Conclusions: The results showed that after training the CHA had a better knowledge about the purpose of cytopathology and, on preparing women for their achievement, on the causative agent and the risk factors for UCC and demonstrate some understanding of the results of cytopathology.

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saúde da família, câncer do colo do útero, capacitação. clinica medica 1.saúde da família. 2. câncer do colo do útero. 3.agente comunitário- capacitação. family health, cervical cancer, education.

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