Interprofessionality, training, and collaborative work in the context of family health: action-research

Abstract

The study aimed to collectively build Interprofessional Collaborative Practices (PCI) and evaluate them from  the perspective of professors and students of  healthcare courses of a Federal Higher Education Institution (IES) and a Family Health team (eSF). An  action-research was carried out with a qualitative approach in an eSF territory of Northeastern capital in Brazil, aiming to build PCIs towards children’s health. It involved 15 participants: eSF professionals;  professors and students from nursing, dentistry, and  nutrition courses from an IES. Three phases were   carried out: diagnosis about Interprofessional  Education and the PCIs, through interviews; planning  and execution of child healthcare actions; and  evaluation, through a focus group. The interviews and the focus group were recorded, then transcribed  and  interpreted using thematic analysis. The intervention  favored the meeting between the subjects, the  exchange of experiences and common learning, the  recognition of roles, constituting a communicative  and participatory space for the promotion of  knowledge and actions. The action was only possible  because of the intentionality involved in its implementation and the development of actions were  permeated with listening and creation around  children’s healthcare in this territory. The interaction  enabled the resignification of the production of  interprofessional healthcare centered on children and  their families.