PREVENCIÓN DE TUBERCULOSIS PULMONAR A USUARIOS QUE ACUDEN AL CENTRO DE SALUD FÁTIMA, PORTOVIEJO

Abstract

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease with the highest incidence worldwide and a public health problem in developing countries, for this reason the promotion of pulmonary tuberculosis prevention to users who go to the Fatima Health Center, Portoviejo is a work that highlights the importance of preventing it. The participatory action intervention work was focused on users who are an active part of the diabetic and hypertensive club; whose methodology was to apply the techniques of key informant, focus group and structured interview directed to 25 people from this club, managing to identify the most felt problems in the community as little knowledge about prevention measures that allow them to avoid the spread of tuberculosis; little interest in knowing about the subject, lack of information on educational strategies that allow them to avoid this disease, lack of knowledge about the dangers of contagion of pulmonary tuberculosis for the family and the community in general and little knowledge of how vulnerable they are due to the disease they already suffer from such as diabetes and hypertension to contract pulmonary tuberculosis; Applying the ranking method for this, establishing the prioritization of problems, implementing an intervention plan composed of several educational activities that served to strengthen the knowledge of these patients, concluding with the positive results that were obtained, through commitment of patients on the application of prevention measures to take care of their health and family.