Colaboração interprofissional na atenção primária de saúde de Pontal do Araguaia: participação do Programa de Educação para o Trabalho em Saúde

Abstract

Interprofessional practice and collaboration are innovative strategies that improve the health workforce. Interprofessional education enhances the execution of effective actions in the training process. The Education Program for Health Work (PET-Saúde Interprofessionalidade) encourages this collaborative and interprofessional training process. Thus, the objective of this research was to analyze the attitudes of professionals who work in Primary Health Care in the municipality of Pontal do Araguaia, on collaborative and interprofessional work, emphasizing the professionals participating in the PET. For the descriptive cross-sectional study, the Jefferson Scale of Attitudes Related to Interprofessional Collaboration (EJARCI) was used, data were analyzed in Excel and Software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Twenty-one health professionals participated, 52.5% participated in the PET, the majority being female (66.7%), the age group with predominance in the groups of professionals aged between 41 and 50 and with greater participation of community health agents (28.6%). There was a difference in scores between the different groups of respondents, PET participants showed greater collaborative attitudes, in statistics the Cronbach's alpha value of reliability of the scale was higher in the group of non-PET participants, demonstrating a consistency in the scores through an attitude collaborative. Therefore, this work corroborates studies and research on interprofessionality and its collaborative actions, as factors associated with attitudes of interprofessional collaboration between PET-Saúde participants and non-participants were identified. The coexistence with professionals working in PET-Saúde may have contributed and promoted greater motivation about collaborative work between different professionals in Primary Health Care.