PERCEPTION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ABOUT METABOLIC SYNDROME
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https://doi.org/10.21527/2176-7114.2020.38.177-184Abstract
The objective of this study was to understand the perception of the health professionals around metabolic syndrome. It is a qualitative research, descriptive, exploratory and of area, performed with health professionals manned in two Community Health Centers in Palmas/ Tocantins, through interview by using a semi-structured questionnaire being analyzed by the Content Analysis methods. According to the speech similarity it was grouped to the interview analysis the professional categories of nursing and medicine, community health agent and nurse technician, since the first group has stood out further about the topic and shown less strangeness around the term, however still without further development according to literature. To the same purposes, the results were divided in categories: concept and diagnosis; treatment; risk factors; preventive actions. The higher education professionals demonstrated greater understanding around metabolic syndrome, but still notes that it is necessary greater understanding about the topic, to the real importance of this condition be recognized. In this way, there will be suitable provision of assistance to the patients, avoiding the emergence of new cases of metabolic syndrome and chronic diseases get settled, causing economic and social consequences to the country.
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