Objective:
To analyze the effect educational actions with professionals of Primary Healthcare focused on counseling on healthy ways.
Methods:
Intervention study with health professionals of a Basic Health Unit of Belo Horizonte - MG. Was applied a questionnaire, pre and post-intervention, consisting of socio-demographic data, and counseling practice. The educational activities occurred for four months and consisted of interventions focused on counseling.
Results:
The participants were 66 professionals who preferably counseled sick individuals (52.1%) during home visits (42.6%) and individual consultation (35.4%) being the main barrier to their achievement, non-adherence of users (52, 2%). After the intervention, there was increasing in realization of regular counseling (p = 0.009) and reduction only for sick users (p = 0.012).
Conclusion:
Actions enabled the expansion of counseling practice, primarily focused on health promotion and disease prevention, revealing the relevance of including such topics in continuing education activities.
Counseling; Health Personnel; Health Promotion; Primary Health Care; Health Education