Banca de DEFESA: RAYANE SARAIVA FELIX

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STUDENT : RAYANE SARAIVA FELIX
DATE: 29/04/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Google Meet - https://meet.google.com/xrm-dent-zxm
TITLE:

ASSESSMENT OF THE ATTRIBUTES OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN THE ASSISTANCE TO PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PARNAMIRIM / RN

KEY WORDS:

Primary Health Care; Hypertension; Health Evaluation; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms.

PAGES: 90
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Enfermagem
SUMMARY:

Systemic Arterial Hypertension (SAH) represents a serious epidemiological problem in Brazil and in the world, both due to its high prevalence and the complications it causes with high rates of morbidity and mortality and relevant impacts on hospital costs. In Brazil, the challenges of controlling and preventing SAH and its complications are, above all, for the teams that provide Primary Health Care (PHC), whose work process presupposes a bond with the community and the attached clientele. Evaluating the performance of PHC in the care of people with SAH is an important need for propositions that seek to improve the quality of care, since the evaluation is an instrument that supports decision-making and guides changes. In this sense, this study aimed to evaluate the attributes of primary health care in the care of patients with Systemic Arterial Hypertension in the city of Parnamirim/RN. This is an evaluative study with a quantitative approach of a normative nature. The evaluation model created by Barbara Starfield was used as a theoretical-methodological framework, which suggests a normative method to measure the achievement of primary health care, evaluating the capacity and performance of attributes at this level of care in relation to the actions developed/offered. The study was carried out in units that offer primary health care services in Parnamirim, a municipality in the Metropolitan Region of Rio Grande do Norte. The study population consisted of nurses and doctors (110 subjects) from the Family Health Strategy teams, responsible for follow-up consultations for patients with SAH within the primary care of the municipality. Medical professionals and nurses who work in the unit surveyed for at least three months were included in the sample. Professionals who were on sick leave and professional leave were excluded. Data collection was carried out between the months of October 2021 and January 2022, using an instrument to assess the capacity and performance of care for hypertensive patients in PHC. This instrument was created based on the Primary Care Assessment Tool in the Brazil version (PCATool-Brasil) and on Caderno de Atenção Básica nº 37, both published by the Ministry of Health. The instrument consists of 5 questions to characterize the professionals and 29 questions that seek to assess the elements related to the capacity and performance of each PHC attribute, namely: first contact access; longitudinality, integrality and coordination. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, in which scores were calculated, classified as High (score ≥ 6.6) and Low (score < 6.6), with the High score being characterized by the presence and extent of PHC attributes, revealing services better oriented. The study followed the ethical and legal principles that govern scientific research in human beings, recommended in Resolution No. 466/2012, of the National Health Council, being submitted to the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and approved under the number: 4,954,487. Sixty-nine subjects participated in the research, of which 76.81% were female, 72.46% had a nursing degree, 59.42% said they worked for 1 to 2 years in the current Primary Health Care unit. Of the 4 attributes evaluated in this study, only the attribute Longitudinality had a high score (7.61), the others had a low score, namely: Access to the first contact (5.92), Integrality (5.96), Coordination (5.57) . In this way, it can be seen that the municipality did not obtain a satisfactory score, evidencing the absence of the extension of the PHC attributes in the care of patients with arterial hypertension and improvement in health care processes, qualification of the system's performance, and consequently, impacts on improving the health of this population.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1995800 - ERIKA SIMONE GALVAO PINTO
Interna - 3168491 - NILBA LIMA DE SOUZA
Externo à Instituição - MARIA AMÉLIA ZANON PONCE
Externa à Instituição - WESLLA KARLA ALBUQUERQUE SILVA DE PAULA