Conhecimento acerca dos cuidados paliativos em internos do curso de medicina de uma instituição privada de ensino em Belém/PA

Abstract

Brazil is experiencing a demographic transition, with changes in dietary and behavioral patterns, increasing the incidence of non-communicable chronic diseases. In view of this, there is a breakdown of the family group as the disease progresses and even the patient's death. In this context, curative medicine emerges, with Palliative Care, which aims to alleviate the suffering of the patient and the family, through physical, psychological, social and spiritual health care, easing the death process. To analyze knowledge about palliative care in students of the 11th and 12th semester of the Medicine course at the Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará (CESUPA) in the year 2022. A cross-sectional, observational and descriptive study was carried out based on the application of a virtual evaluated to the academics in question. 89 students were analyzed, 70.78% female and 29.21% male, with most students being 20-25 years old (70.78%) and only 4.49% taking a course extracurricular on the subject. A large part of the students had knowledge about the subject, either in relation to the concepts that support palliative care (77.3%), or about the therapy used (85.69%), as well as who this care is intended for (79, 02%). Although most students have knowledge about the subject, it is noted that it is necessary to implement the subject in the course curriculum, as well as to offer extracurricular courses on the subject, due to the local and global importance in which it is inserted.