PURPOSE:
to map the knowledge of community health workers before and after the participation in training workshops on phonoaudiological aspects and to verify changes in the perception according to the working time in the Family Health Strategy.
METHODS:
the study was conducted in a municipality with 74,409 inhabitants, 170 km from Belo Horizonte, the capital of the State of Minas Gerais. Its Primary Health Care network is composed of 10 units of Family Health Strategy that allocate 60 health workers. The information was collected from all units and the process consisted of three stages: a) application of a questionnaire about phonoaudiological aspects; b) training process; c) reapplication of the questionnaire.
RESULTS:
51 health workers participated in the study. After the training, the number of health workers who started to give importance to factors that may indicate communication disorders in different age groups and that became aware of the four areas of the phonoaudiology became greater. There was no statistical relationship between the answers of the workers and the work unit. Regarding the working time in the Family Health Strategy, those who work for less than a year in the primary care gave the best answers before the training.
CONCLUSION:
the training favored the responses of the community health workers. There was a relationship between the training process and the working time in the Family Health Program.
Family Health Strategy; Single Health System; Service Training; Primary Health Care; Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; Community Health Workers
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