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Primary Health Care professionals' knowledge about initial care for burn victims
Fabrício de Oliveira Viana1, Kelsen Dantas Eulálio2, Luana Kelle Batista Moura1
1Centro Universitário Uninovafapi. Teresina, Piauí, Brazil.
Objectives:
to assess Primary Health Care physicians and nurses' knowledge about initial care for burn patients.
Methods:
a descriptive cross-sectional survey of 71 professionals between February 19 and March 30, 2018. A validated questionnaire was used to assess knowledge through the correct answers obtained in the tool; Mann-Whitney test to compare professionals' level of knowledge; and logistic regression to investigate the association with other variables.
Results:
there was an overall wrong answer rate of 40.27% in a tool applied to the subject in relation to physicians and 45.59% of nurses, with no statistically significant difference among them (p=0.27). There was a positive association between level of knowledge and length of practice in Primary Health Care (p=0.043). 29.19% of physicians and 14.89% of nurses knew the Ministry of Health's flowchart for initial care for burn victims.
Conclusions:
professionals had a low level of knowledge associated with their time in Primary Health Care.
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