TY - JOUR
KW - Work Performance
KW - Primary Health Care
KW - Community health workers
KW - Communicable Disease Control
KW - Leprosy
AU - Bolorino N
AU - Gonçalves LC
AU - de Freitas FMB
AU -  de Araújo NM
AU - Luquini V
AU - Bandeira Rodrigues LB
AU -  de Mattos TSS
AU - Meneguetti Pieri F
AB - <p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate whether the attributes of Primary Healthcare are present in leprosy control actions in Londrina from Community Health Workers’ (CHW) perspectives.</p>

<p><strong>Methods: </strong>Observational and evaluative study. Data collection occurred between January and March 2020 in Londrina, Paraná, using the questionnaire “Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCATool) - Hansen’s disease - CHW version” and a population-based census of 246 CHWs from 52 Primary Healthcare Units. The analyses used a cutoff point (≥ 6.6), central tendency, and dispersion measures. One-way ANOVA and Tukey’s post hoc tests were used to analyze differences.</p>

<p><strong>Results: </strong>The general performance towards the primary healthcare attributes were evaluated as strong (mean = 6.95 / SD = 1.08) and the essential score (mean = 7.39 / SD = 1.0). On the other hand, the derived score was evaluated as poor (mean = 6.07 / sd = 1.06). Concerning the Access attribute, the rural zone had a lower score than the urban (mean = 4.47 / SD = 1.63).</p>

<p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The study highlights issues that can be improved, such as first contact access, catalog of services offered to leprosy patients, information provided to the community, professional training, and differences in PHC performance between urban and rural regions.</p>

BT - Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing
LA - ENG
M3 - Article
N2 - <p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate whether the attributes of Primary Healthcare are present in leprosy control actions in Londrina from Community Health Workers’ (CHW) perspectives.</p>

<p><strong>Methods: </strong>Observational and evaluative study. Data collection occurred between January and March 2020 in Londrina, Paraná, using the questionnaire “Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCATool) - Hansen’s disease - CHW version” and a population-based census of 246 CHWs from 52 Primary Healthcare Units. The analyses used a cutoff point (≥ 6.6), central tendency, and dispersion measures. One-way ANOVA and Tukey’s post hoc tests were used to analyze differences.</p>

<p><strong>Results: </strong>The general performance towards the primary healthcare attributes were evaluated as strong (mean = 6.95 / SD = 1.08) and the essential score (mean = 7.39 / SD = 1.0). On the other hand, the derived score was evaluated as poor (mean = 6.07 / sd = 1.06). Concerning the Access attribute, the rural zone had a lower score than the urban (mean = 4.47 / SD = 1.63).</p>

<p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The study highlights issues that can be improved, such as first contact access, catalog of services offered to leprosy patients, information provided to the community, professional training, and differences in PHC performance between urban and rural regions.</p>

PY - 2024
SP - 1
EP - 10
T2 - Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing
TI - Evaluation by community health agents of the attributes of Primary Health Care for fighting leprosy: a cross-sectional study
UR - https://docs.bvsalud.org/biblioref/2024/06/1560800/6700-article-text-41149-1-10-20240623.pdf
ER -