Impacto das ações de educação em saúde na CEI Paulo Sarasate, Fortaleza-CE

Abstract

Intestinal parasites are infectious diseases very present in Brazil and throughout the world, especially in underdeveloped countries due to their precarious sanitary conditions. Sanitary hygiene is important in relation to the prevention of enteroparasites, since they are transmitted via the fecal-oral route. Thus, its form of transmission makes food an important means of propagation of these diseases. The occurrence in children is high among the contaminated individuals, since their habits facilitate their contamination. Based on this, the present work had the objective of identifying parasites in CEI students Paulo Sarasate, Fortaleza-CE and the sanitary reeducation of those responsible for these children, orienting them regarding the search for treatment and the prevention of recontaminations. These actions were planned based on the result obtained from questionnaires applied to the community. In the preliminary phase, the design of the epidemiological profile of the population served by the project was carried out, using a questionnaire that allowed us to know that 14.3% of families do not have access to water treated for domestic purposes; 10% still eliminate their feces in pits; 18.8% do not wash their hands after going to the bathroom; 16.7% of those in charge assumed that there is no habit of walking shoes indoors. Regarding the use of antiparasitics by those responsible in the last six months, the index was 40%, whereas in the children it was 46.9%. The results suggest that the population profile has risk factors that facilitate the occurrence of enteroparasitoses, since the prevalence of intestinal parasitoses was 44.4% of the children examined. Therefore, it is necessary to implement measures in order to reduce the risks to the community.