Conhecimento e percepção acerca da interprofissionalidade entre acadêmicos dos cursos da saúde do campus universitário do Araguaia

Abstract

Interprofessional education (IPE) is a strategy to transform professional training, being an activity that involves two or more professionals learning together for collaboration and quality of health care. The present work aims to verify the knowledge and perceptions of students in the health area about interprofessionality within the university. This is a descriptive, exploratory, quantitative-qualitative research, in which 85 students from the Institute of Biological and Health Sciences of the University Campus of Araguaia participated. The instrument used was prepared in Google Forms and the data analyzed using EpiInfo version 7. It was observed that interactions occurred frequently and/or always between students from other courses 44.7%, with professors from different backgrounds 43.7% and with health professionals 34.2%. Only 18.8% participated in the PET-Health/Interprofessionality Program, 46.6% prefer to do work alone, 71.8% feel comfortable performing activities in pairs or trios, when performing group activities, 50, 5% develop in collaboration, with the participation of everyone at all stages. They said they were not satisfied with the frequency of discussions on the subject (45.8%), however, 92.9% recognize the importance of interprofessionality for their training, and 90.6%, if there was a discipline with the theme, would attend. The study showed that most students reasonably understand the concept of IP, they are willing to implement IPE, as they have had experiences that refer to collaborative work, however, they expressed dissatisfaction with the low frequency of discussions on the subject.