Conhecimento e habilidade dos profissionais captadores e triagistas na identificação de comportamentos de risco para DST/HIV em candidatos à doação de sangue

Abstract

The blood safety begins with the recruitment and selection of blood donors in order to avoid targeting blood donors who may be at risk of infection of some agents capable of transmission by blood, including STD/HIV. Objective is to evaluate the knowledge and skills of professionals for clinic screening to identify risk behaviors for STD/HIV in candidates for blood donation. Cross-sectional study accomplished with 54 professionals responsible for capturing and clinical screening of blood donors in five blood centers of Ceara located in the cities of Fortaleza, Sobral, Crato Iguatu and Quixadá in the period May to October 2014. A questionnaire for data collection was developed, validated and applied by judges to pickups and triagistas. The results showed that the content of the questionnaire was considered comprehensive and valid, according to the expert committee. Among the professionals, stands out the predominance of women; young adults with a median age 36.31 ± 9.51 years; with the largest concentration of these at the Blood Center of Fortaleza. The pickups blood had a good batting average in Transfusion Safety criteria (0.86), followed by the National Blood Donation Policy (0.78). However, they had a low success rate in Risk Behavior criteria for STD / HIV (0.42) and ability to host and communication (0.49), needing guidance on the conduct adopted with donors about risky behavior and actions prevention of STD / HIV. The triagistas had a good batting average on criteria National Blood Donation Policy (0.89), followed by Transfusion Safety (0.79) and risk behavior for STD / HIV (0.73). However, they had a low success rate in the criteria Reception and Communication Ability (0.50), which interferes directly in the conduct of these professionals with blood donors to improve transfusion safety. Visualized the need for training on identification of risk factors for STD/HIV and improved communication with the candidate for donation in order to detect through a holistic view, the information required to increase transfusion safety and minimizing risks related to the transmission of diseases by blood.