Interprofessionality, training, and collaborative work in the context of family health: action-research

ABSTRACT

The study aimed to collectively build Interprofessional Collaborative Practices (PCI) and evaluate them from the perspective of professors and students of healthcare courses of a Federal Higher Education Institution (IES) and a Family Health team (eSF). An action-research was carried out with a qualitative approach in an eSF territory of Northeastern capital in Brazil, aiming to build PCIs towards children’s health. It involved 15 participants: eSF professionals; professors and students from nursing, dentistry, and nutrition courses from an IES. Three phases were carried out: diagnosis about Interprofessional Education and the PCIs, through interviews; planning and execution of child healthcare actions; and evaluation, through a focus group. The interviews and the focus group were recorded, then transcribed and interpreted using thematic analysis. The intervention favored the meeting between the subjects, the exchange of experiences and common learning, the recognition of roles, constituting a communicative and participatory space for the promotion of knowledge and actions. The action was only possible because of the intentionality involved in its implementation and the development of actions were permeated with listening and creation around children’s healthcare in this territory. The interaction enabled the resignification of the production of interprofessional healthcare centered on children and their families.

KEYWORDS
Interprofessional education; Professional training; Universities; Primary Health Care; Inegrality in health