The effectiveness of community health workers participation in tuberculosis control at two modalities of basic attention in Ribeirão Preto-SP

• Grant number: 09/17666-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: May 01, 2010
• End date: April 30, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nursing - Public Health Nursing
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio
• Grantee: Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio
• Host Institution: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto (EERP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project results from contribution of Brazilian Tuberculosis Research Network Operational and Epidemiological Area researchers. In recent years, the TB Control Plan emphasized the participation of the Community Health Workers and the Family Health Staffs to contribute in expansion of the TB Control Program to Basic Attention. The objective this national proposal was to increase the TB case detection and the early diagnostic. The effectiveness of Community Health Workers (CHW) participation in TB control was assessed in a sample of 83 ACS in Ribeirão Preto. This study is transversal based in population and health services. The effectiveness of the health services will be evaluated following the modality of Basic Attention. The researchers will select the variable significant, from the simple statistics analysis, it to analysis of logistic regression, in order to limit the interference of the confounding variable of the study model. The authors consider that this study can offer subsidies to the public health politics in incorporation of TB control actions in primary health care. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

JULIANE DE ALMEIDA CRISPIM; BEATRIZ ESTUQUE SCATOLIN; LAÍS MARA CAETANO DA SILVA; IONE CARVALHO PINTO; PEDRO FREDEMIR PALHA; RICARDO ALEXANDRE ARCÊNCIO. Agente Comunitário de Saúde no controle da tuberculose na Atenção Primária à Saúde. Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, v. 25, n. 5, p. 721-727, 2012-10-02. (09/17666-6)