Formação profissional de cuidadores de idosos atuantes em instituições de longa permanência

Abstract

This is a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study with a quantitative approach which aimed to investigate the vocational training of caregivers who works in Homes for the Aged (HFA) in Natal / RN in the year of 2014. Therefore, semi-structured questionary was applied to 63 caregivers in 09 HFA, representing 75% of caregivers who works in these institutions. The questionary captured data related to the socioeconomic profile and to the vocational training about caring profession. These data were analyzed by observing absolute e relative frequencies and measures of central tendency of the numeric variables. In general, it was found that most of caregivers was from low socioeconomic status and started to practice the occupation without conducting a previous specific course. However, among those who attended a course, most report that the contents saw in the curriculum provided security for the praxis of care, but these people also reported the need for training. In general, the results, probably, show that there isan inadequateformaltrainingto practice the caregiver’s occupation,amidreports of short 01 week courses (n=20 interviewed) which practical activitiesconsist ofdemonstrationlessons.This revealsweaknesses in professional qualificationthatwould relatedto the absence of a guiding core curriculum and the low education required for professional practice