Conhecimento, atitudes, práticas e a percepção dos agentes comunitários de saúde acerca do risco de doenças transmitidas por alimentos, Cuiabá - MT

Abstract

Thousands of people suffer serious consequences every year from eating food with some form of contamination. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes, practices and risk perception of community health agents (CHA) in the Municipality of Cuiabá-MT. This is a cross-sectional study carried out in Family Health Units (USF) with ACS. We selected 29 USF, estimates of sample size in 162 ACS. The ACS completed the questionnaire on demographic / professional profiling, risk perception, knowledge, attitudes and practices on Foodborne Diseases (DTA). The data were tabulated and analyzed using Epiinfo software and R code Team (2017), with a confidence level of 95%. A total of 159 ACS were interviewed, of which 93.08% were women with a mean age of 39 years and 63.52% with a high school diploma, with 9 years as the average ACS profession. Only 35.85% participated in training in good practices and hygiene or food handling. The level of knowledge indicated an average punctuation of 6.25. Attitudes presented a high punctuation (8,88) as well as in practices (43,93). There was a correlation between high risk perception and greater knowledge and punctuation in practices. The ACS who reported having participated in training, obtained a greater perception of risk on ATD. It is necessary and extremely important to invest in training to improve the activities of the ACS, obtaining a better control over health and hygiene issues of the population.