Conhecimento sobre os atributos da Atenção Primária por residentes de uma universidade pública no interior do Nordeste Brasileiro

Abstract

The Health Strategy Family Program amplifies the possibilities of access to the services and care for health maintenance through distinct points of view and knowledges. The essential and derived attributes are foundational elements of the Primary Healthcare acting as evaluation instruments and monitoring its quality. In this context, health related professional qualification programs focused on Primary Healthcare must present them as the direction that grounds the professional practice. This study aimed to evaluate knowledge about the attributes of Primary Health Care by residents of the Primary Healthcare Multiprofessional Residence and of the residence program on Family and Community Medicine of the Medical Sciences Multicampi School. This is a quantitative research, descriptive, exploratory, in which a questionnaire was applied regarding the level of knowledge over the approach of Primary Healthcare attributes on the qualification process, and the application of the Primary Care Assessment Tool Brasil (Professional version) with 37 students of both residence programs that are also enrolled on Basic Healthcare Units in Caicó/RN and Currais Novos/RN counties, from April to September 2022. From the obtained data, the attribute related to First Contact Access (Accessibility) had the lowest score (3,04), being Coordination – Information Systems the attribute with the highest score (8,07). Amongst the others, just Integrality – Available Services (7,03) and Familiar Orientation (8,01) obtained satisfactory scores. Both the Essential Score (5,97) and the General Score (5,92) were below average. It is possible to conclude that there is a lack of knowledge among residents regarding the attributes, as well as in their approach in the practice of health services and taking into account that it may be a reflection of the lack of a specific direction to the attributes as a structuring axis in political projects - pedagogical aspects of residency programs, considering that it is used as the main scenario within the training process.