METHODS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN HEALTH FOR THE QUALIFICATION OF PRENATAL CARE IN PRIMARY CARE: AN INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Objective: To identify the methods of continuing education in health used with primary care professionals to qualify prenatal care. Method: this is an integrative review, being developed systematically through six phases: elaboration of the guiding question; search or sampling in the literature; data collection; critical analysis of the included studies; discussion of the results and presentation. Results: A total of 377 studies were found through database searches. After removing duplications, 351 publications remained, and the titles and abstracts were read in full, in an optimized way, using the online application Rayyan. A total of 21 of the studies were selected for the writing of the study, of which 6 were excluded because they did not meet the inclusion criteria. Thus, in the eligibility stage, of the 15 articles that were read completely, 9 were excluded because they did not meet the objective of the research and 6 remained included in the review. The sample composed of 6 articles comprised 3 in Portuguese, 2 in English and 1 in Spanish, and the approach was predominantly quantitative in 4 of these articles. The following methods of continuing education were identified: working groups; discussion of cases; Workshops; Courses; education packages (including training for providers; supervision of support and provision of modules; pamphlets and employment aids) Ammuntuli Bija intervention model. Conclusion: in view of the analysis of the articles included in this study, it was found that the various methods of continuing education applied to primary health care professionals are drivers of positive results for the qualification of prenatal care, by allowing them to be protagonists in their teaching-learning process and transformers of their practices.