Intervención educativa para el mejoramiento del nivel de conocimiento sobre la guía de cuidados paliativos 2014 del MSP del personal de salud en el Centro de Salud Tipo C Catamayo .

Abstract

Abstract:The need for palliative care worldwide is very high, especially in developing countries such as Ecuador. Low implementation and knowledge of palliative care guidelines have led to poor patient management at the end of life. Under this approach, the effectiveness of an educational strategy in palliative care was evaluated in Catamayo Health Center. The Analytical Quasi-experimental study design was used, and one administrative manager, 25 physicians, and 9 nurses, all of them were part of the first level of care personnel considered as a sample population. Measures of central tendency and absolute frequencies were calculated; the Chi-square Hypothesis test was made to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention, Student s t-test and McNemar&#39;s test were performed too. After the educational intervention, it was found that the level of knowledge of the health personnel was superior to 4.64 points and the level of knowledge of the nursing staff was superior to 5.44 with a p-value of <0.001 between the pre-and the post-intervention, this evidenced the improvement in the use of the NECPAL instrument, Edmonton scale, prescription of medications and ability to provide psychological support to patients and family.