Atuação dos profissionais da estratégia de saúde da família para o manejo da sífilis

Abstract

Objective: To identify the role of professionals in family health strategies for the diagnosis, notification, treatment, post-treatment follow-up and cure of syphilis. Methods: Cross-sectional study carried out with 135 Primary Health Care employees in a city in the interior of the Northeast. A questionnaire was used to evaluate professionals' practices, from which data were analyzed with the help of IBM SPSS Statistics software. Submitted and approved by the Research Ethics Committee, with opinion: 6,601,998. Results: A total of 97% of participants undergo a rapid diagnostic test. Among the units, 78.5% and 75.6% of participants responded that the diagnosis occurs during the prenatal consultation and by spontaneous demand, respectively; 97% responded that they carry out compulsory notification; 46.7% of units carry out treatment in the unit itself; to control healing, 55% request quarterly VDRL. Conclusion: Family Health Strategy Units are extremely important for creating strategies aimed at managing syphilis, however, some responses differed from the expected result, reinforcing the importance of continued education of the teams