HEALTH PROFESSIONAL PROFILE FACING THE
WORK WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE:
an exploratory study of the career anchors
Débora Lopes Paiva - CEHMOB
Marcus Vinicius Gonçalves da Cruz - IEC-PUC-Minas
Katy Karoline Santos Diniz - CEHMOB
Daniela Coelho Ricardo - CEHMOB
Priscila Quirino de Souza Menezes - CEHMOB
Introduction
Important public health
problem in Brazil
Needs to be well known by
health services
Final status of students
in period 2010 - 2013
18%
19%
9%
Presents social vulnerability
54%
Approved
APROVADOS
Reproved
REPROVADOS
DESISTENTES
Dropouts
EVADIDOS
Escapees
Goals
The goal is to check the career anchors of tutors
and health professionals who took the course:
"Sickle Cell Disease: Line Care in
Primary Health Care".
Career Anchors
The career anchors indicate the importance of the
area which the professional does not give up.
It includes the self-perceptions that people have
about work:
- Talents and skills
- Motives and needs
- Attitudes and values
(Schein, 1993)
Career Anchors
General Administrative Competence
Lifestyle
Entrepreneurial Creativity
Security / Stability
Dedication to a Cause
Autonomy / Independence
Pure Challenge
Technical-professional Competence
Competence of Health Professionals
Professionals "being able to positively affect the changing
conditions of life and health of the population will affect the health
care and therapy provided to individuals and communities.“
(CAMELO; ANGERAMI, 2013, p. 553)
Educational strategies have potential to transform health
care, since they allow to improve the performance of
technical and social professionals.
Distance Education
Dropout Rate:
Greater than 30% are considered high.
(ABRAEAD, 2008)
It is a multifactorial phenomenon:
Combination of student characteristics and life
circumstances.
(ALMEIDA, 2008)
Found reasons for dropout in
distance education courses
 Prioritization of other professional activities;
 Interest only in knowing the characteristics of the ODL
environment;
 Lack of prerequisites needed to follow the course;
 Health problems;
 Technical problems of access;
 Lack of time to study and attend the course;
 Lack of academic support;
 Lack of adaptation to the methodology / technology;
 Work overload.
Methodology
 Descriptive character
Former student
Tutors
 Correlational approach
 Universe (2010 – 2013/1)
886
905
19
13
32
Methodology
Sending emails to:
886 Former student
32 Tutors
Clarifications
Google form
TCLE
SEQ
Anchors
Results
Former student
Tutors
GROUP OF
PARTICIPANTS
Former Student
886
905
19
13
32
ANSWERS
(91) 10,3%
Tutors
(16) 50%
TOTAL
(105) 11,6%
Results
Tutors anchors:
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
44%
Former student anchors:
31%
35%
27%
30%
19%
19%
19%
22%
25%
15%
20%
15%
10%
Dedicationa
More
Maisthen
de Dedicação
to a cause
one
career
uma âncora uma
causa
anchors
de carreira
Security //
Lifestyle
Estilo
de Segurança
Stability
vida
Estabilidade
4%
5%
0%
Mais de uma Dedicação a Estilo de vida Segurança /
Security / Outras
Lifestyle Estabilidade
Others
âncoras
More
thende Dedication
âncora
uma causa
to a cause
one career
carreira
anchors
Stability
anchors
Results
Former stundents’ anchors
Former students’ anchors (n= 91)
Approved in the course (n=79) - 87%
29%
30%
31%
35%
27%
30%
25%
22%
25%
20%
15%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
25%
27%
4%
Security /
More then Dedication Lifestyle
Others
Stability
one
career
anchors
to
a
cause
Mais de uma Dedicação a Estilo de vida Segurança /
Outras
anchors
âncora
de
uma causa
Estabilidade
âncoras
carreira
15%
15%
10%
4%
5%
0%
More
then
Mais de
uma
oneâncora
career
de
carreira
anchors
Security
Lifestyle
Segurança// Dedication
Dedicação a Estilo
de vida
a cause
Stability to
Estabilidade
uma
causa
Others
Outras
anchors
Results
The career anchor dedication to a cause has
expressiveness among the surveyed professionals.
It refers to the use of interpersonal skills and help in
serving others, important attitudes to deal with
people who have sickle cell disease work.
Conclusion
Patients belong to the poorer sections of the
population, and so many are dependent on the
public system.
So, the training of health professionals prove to
be crucial for them to develop their potential
related to working with sickle cell disease.
Conclusion
It is essential to optimize
the resources allocated to
the distance education
course.
Optimize
resource
Evasion
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