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Introduction: In good organizational practice, health professionals should be provided with training programs for fall prevention. Aims: To evaluate the impact of an educational program for nurses on the prevention of falls in the elderly population in a community context. Method: This study supports the intervention phase of an Action-Research investigation. Was implemented a training program, with two steps: sensitization (S) and formation (F) held in a group of North Health Centers of Portugal. In the S step, 154 professionals from different areas participated. In the F step, 67 nurses participated. The S step occurred between February and March of 2017. The satisfaction of the training was assesseded. The F step enrolled five sessions, performed between May and June 2017. The target group of this stage were only nurses. In addition to the assessment of training satisfaction, a questionnaire was useded (pre-test). We used descriptive analysis and comparison of means using the IBM SPSS 25.0 software. The Ethics Committee for North Health centers (nº 97/2014) approved the study. Results: In the S step, were represented all the professional areas, but the physicians (43.8%) were more representative. In F step, the sample of nurses is mostly female (80.6%), with an age between 32-60 years. The professional activity years of nurses vary between 8 and 36 years. In the overall assessment of training satisfaction, it was verified that the training dimension (mean 3.71 and mean 3.67), respectively in sessions 3 and 5, was the most valued. Conclusion: The program revealed improvement in nurses’ knowledge. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
