Educational intervention on pulmonary tuberculosis in the Provincial Penitentiary Establishment of Ciego de Ávila
Abstract
Introduction: pulmonary tuberculosis is the most important transmissible disease in the history of mankind. Despite efforts to control and eradicate it, the numbers of sick and deceased are alarming.
Objective: to evaluate the utility of an educational intervention program to modify the level of knowledge about pulmonary tuberculosis in the penal population of the Provincial Penitentiary Establishment of Ciego de Ávila.
Method: a pre-experimental study (before-after) was carried out between January and December 2017. The universe was constituted by the 1 000 inmates of the institution. From them, 39 were selected through non-probabilistic sampling. In the first stage, according to critical cases, 13 internal health promoters were selected, one from each detachment, and these, in a second stage, in cascade, elected two key informants. In the analysis of the socio-demographic variables were used the mean and the standard deviation, and to measure the response of the intervention, the statistical tests of McNemar and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test.
Results: more than half of the inmates had a higher average educational level (69,23 %). The average age was 37,70 years. The level of global knowledge increased 2,56 % with an adequate level before the intervention until 87,18 % after being applied, with significant differences. All participants said that the intervention was pleasant and instructive.
Conclusions: the usefulness of the educational intervention was demonstrated by improving the level of knowledge about pulmonary tuberculosis in the selected inmatesDownloads
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