ABSTRACT
Objective:
to investigate how the policy transfer of the Directly Observed Treatment of Tuberculosis was developed from the perspective of the community health professionals of the Conceição Hospital Group.
Method:
it is a quantitative research of the epidemiological inquiry type, which was based on the application of a validated and self-directed instrument to the health professionals belonging to the 12 Primary Health Care Units to the Community Health Service of the Conceição Hospital Group. For the analysis, the beta regression, the description of the frequencies of the variables, the distribution of the mean, median and the standard deviation were used. In addition, the standardized mean and standardized scores were created.
Results:
109 health professionals participated in the study, most of them female (77.06%), aged between 30 and 59 years old (87.16%) and belonging to the medical category (37.61%). Regarding the three analyzed dimensions of the policy transfer process, it was observed that the Knowledge dimension was the one that had the highest score (77.8%), followed by the dimensions Information (72.7%) and Innovation (67.7%). The need for involvement and participation of the population in the discussions of Directly Observed Treatment, improvement of the infrastructure of the health services and the complexity of the process of accomplishment of this practice were some, among others, important aspects pointed out.
Conclusion:
it is necessary to reformulate and improve the actions related to the operationalization and transfer of the Directly Observed Treatment of Tuberculosis.
DESCRIPTORS:
Tuberculosis; Public health; Public policy; Family health strategy; Health management.