Cartilha sobre cuidados paliativos: uma forma lúdica para inserir o assunto na graduação em medicina

Abstract

The increase in the prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases has contributed to the training of technicists and biologist doctors. Consequently, the death was seen as a professional failure. On the other side, comprehensive patient care in line with humanized care promotes health care that reaffirms the importance of life and understands death as a natural process. This way, it is essential to develop, even in the undergraduate course, strategies the encourage the exercise and practice of palliative care, since the graduate must have a general, critical, reflective and ethical humanist training that defends human dignity and integral health. For this, approaching a delicate topic such as the end of life in a playful and recreational way is essential for the training of future professionals. The present work has the objective an elaboration and validation of a booklet to inset the theme of palliative care in the graduation in Medicine. This validation was carried out by expert judges on the subject, as well as by representatives of the target audience. This is a cross-sectional study, descriptive quantitative. The booklet was organized based on manuals and public health policies, in addition to scientific articles published in virtual libraries. The content was analyzed by health professionals through a questionnaire applied in person or via an electronic form. The evaluators were divided into two groups: the first one containing 10 doctor (geriatricians, oncologists, family doctor and clinicians) and a second group containing 12 medical students regularly enrolled at CESUPA. The method used was the Likert Scale. The technical jury and the target audience evaluated the topics “objective, contents, relevance, illustration, language, layout and design”. According to the Likert scale score, demonstrating that the higher the marking of the criterion “I totally agree” more approved will be the material, the booklet “Palliative Care: Shall we learn about it?” Had its validation confirmed, since the technical jury showed acceptance of 75% and the target audience 92%, creating an overall approval rating of 84%. The booklet obtained a good rate of approval by the experts, demonstrating the relevance of the theme and its insertion un the graduation. As for the target audience, it proved to be a useful tool, agile reading capable of providing relevant information about the topic and instigate the active search for new knowledge.