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Telespeech therapy as a continued education strategy in primary health care in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil

ABSTRACT

Purpose:

to describe the implementation and level of satisfaction of users on tele-education actions related to the health of human communication.

Methods:

an experience report that involved ten sessions of web conferencing seminars in the Telehealth Center in Pernambuco. The target audience was composed of professionals who work in Primary Health Care. Data collection was conducted through a structured interview by telephone with the seminar participants. The following variables were considered: thematic of the sessions, the average of connected points, the participating municipality, professional category and level of satisfaction of the participants. Data were analyzed by simple frequency and arithmetic average.

Results:

the average of points connected in the ten sessions was 3.77. Practitioners from the nursing, medical, speech-language areas and technical level professionals (Community Health Agents) participated. 100% of the subjects regarded the themes as very interesting, and relevant to their profession. All of them reported satisfaction with the tele-education actions.

Conclusions:

the implementation of telespeech therapy in Pernambuco began by training the team, planning, offering and evaluating the actions of tele-education, focused on the health issue of human communication.

Keywords:
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; Telemedicine; Primary Health Care; Education, Distance; Continuing Education

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