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Health education: Course on men's prenatal care for health professionals in primary care

primary health care; health education; partner's prenatal care

Health Education contemplates meaningful, problematizing learning and proposes strategies for the collective construction of knowledge. Among this large area, there is Permanent Education in Health, which develops educational practices focused on solving concrete problems, and as a team seeks alternatives for transforming the work process to achieve more effective and efficient results. In the present dissertation, we sought to deepen about the absence of prenatal care for men, and the possible strategies to be implemented with health professionals, to favor the participation of the partner. The objective of the study was to build a proposal for a training course on men's prenatal care for health professionals in the Basic Units of a municipality in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte. This is a methodological study, carried out in two stages. Developed respecting the ethical foundations of Resolutions nº 466/2012 and ethically approved by opinion number 5,463,151. The first stage, carried out in August 2023, took place through a descriptive-exploratory study with a qualitative approach, in the municipality of Riachuelo, in Rio Grande do Norte, 13 pregnant women, 13 parents and 23 health professionals were interviewed, four nurses, two physicians, six nursing technicians and 11 community health agents. Through content analysis, the following thematic axes related to the perception of the participants in relation to prenatal care for men emerged: Importance of the presence of the man/father in the prenatal consultation; Difficulties for the participation of the man/father in the prenatal consultation; Use of health education to facilitate the father/man's participation in prenatal care; Professional training for the implementation of quality prenatal care for men. In view of the perceptions and needs indicated by the participants regarding men's prenatal care, together with the regulations of the Ministry of Health, the second stage was followed, in which a proposal for a course was built to meet the identified demand for Permanent Education. The course addresses content and uses educational practices focused on solving the problem, through discussions and development of team skills. So that the collectively built knowledge is applied in practice and collaborates for the transformation of the work process, in order to achieve more effective and efficient results in humanized and quality assistance to men in prenatal care.