METHODS OF PERMANENT EDUCATION IN HEALTH FOR QUALIFICATION OF PRENATAL CARE IN PRIMARY CARE: AN INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Objective: To identify the methods of continuing health education used with primary care professionals to qualify prenatal care. Method: This is an integrative review, developed systematically through six phases: elaboration of the guiding question; search or sampling in the literature; data collection; critical analysis of the included studies; discussion of the results and presentation. Results: A total of 377 studies were found through searches in the databases. After removing duplicates, 351 publications remained, and the titles and abstracts were read in full, in an optimized way, using the Rayyan online application. A total of 21 studies were selected for writing the paper, of which 6 were excluded because they did not meet the inclusion criteria. Thus, in the eligibility stage, of the 15 articles read in full, 9 were excluded because they did not meet the research objective and 6 remained as included in the review. The sample comprised 6 articles, 3 in Portuguese, 2 in English and 1 in Spanish, with a predominantly quantitative approach in 4 of these articles. The following continuing education methods were identified: working groups; case discussions; workshops; courses; education packages (including training for providers; supportive supervision and provision of modules; pamphlets and employment assistance); Ammuntuli Bija intervention model. Conclusion: based on the analysis of the articles included in this study, it was found that the various continuing education methods applied to primary health care professionals are drivers of positive results for the qualification of prenatal care, by allowing them to be protagonists in their teaching-learning process and transformers of their practices.