Abstract
To analyze the knowledge about tuberculosis among nursing undergraduate students of a Federal Higher Education Institution. Descriptive cross-sectional study, with quantitative approach. Data were collected through a questionnaire based on the WHO's guide to developing evaluation instruments on knowledge, attitudes and practices related to TB. Students were classified as "with knowledge" and "with little knowledge" based on the mean percentage of correct responses to the variables analyzed. Descriptive statistics techniques were used. 60 nursing students were interviewed. "with little knowledge" was observed among students who were studying at the university for less time and who had no previous contact with the subject, and "with knowledge" was observed among those whose knowledge about tuberculosis was acquired in the health services. Knowledge gaps among undergraduate nursing students were identified, suggesting the need to rethink teaching-learning strategies on the subject.
Highlights
Tuberculosis (TB) is the infectious disease that kills the most people in the world, with 1.8 million deaths in 2015, according to estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO)
In Brazil, this strategy began to be implemented in several cities in 1999, when the Ministry of Health (MH) launched the National Tuberculosis Control Plan (NTCP), establishing guidelines to reach the targets of case detection (70%), treatment success (85%) and treatment dropout[2]
Data were collected from September to December 2016, through a self-administered questionnaire based on the WHO’s guide to developing evaluation instruments on knowledge, attitudes and practices related to TB[18], and on publications that address the most relevant actions for TB control in Brazil, such as the“Manual of Recommendations for the Control of Tuberculosis”(19) and the“Nursing Protocol for the Directly Observed Treatment of Tuberculosis”(20)
Summary
Tuberculosis (TB) is the infectious disease that kills the most people in the world, with 1.8 million deaths in 2015, according to estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO implemented the DOTS strategy (Directly Observed Treatment, short-course) in several countries where TB was a public health problem. Given the current priority of TB in the agenda of the Brazilian MH, the “National Plan to eliminate Tuberculosis as a Public Health Problem” was recently launched in 2017. It complies with the WHO End TB Strategy, which establishes the goal of reducing TB incidence to below 10 cases per one hundred thousand people by 2035, and below one case per million inhabitants by 2050. The work of those involved must cover three pillars: integrated patient-centered care and prevention; bold policies and supportive systems; and intensified research and innovation[3]
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