Estilo de vida e dor crônica: intervenção educativa com agentes comunitários de saúde.

Abstract

Introduction: Life habits directly influence the global health of individuals, impacting both longevity rates and the socioeconomic dynamics of a region. Community health agents are key professionals in primary health care, considered multipliers and a bridge between the community and the health network. Stimulating changes in lifestyle habits considering these professionals can accelerate the process of expanding and recognizing health promotion involving healthy lifestyle habits. Objective: to understand which aspects of health are modified with an intervention based on eight lifestyle habits in CHA from health district I in the city of Uberaba. Materials and methods: longitudinal, quantitative and intervention study carried out in healthcare units with 49 CHA. The intervention protocol, which lasts one month, was based on gradually encouraging the insertion of eight lifestyle habits in the daily lives of CHA. A comprehensive global health assessment protocol was used to assess the participants. The initial statistical analysis involved a descriptive analysis of the data, a paired T test for the parametric data and for the non-parametric data, the Wilcoxon test. To analyze categorical variables, the McNemar test was performed. In addition to the correlations, the clinical relevance was tested by Cohen’d. Results: There was a decrease in the amount of comorbidities; improvement of intrinsic religiosity; improvement of aspects of physical activity at work and as a means of transportation; improvement of the general quality of life and in itsphysical and psychological domains; improvement of the general lifestyle and also its aspects related to nutrition, physical exercise, water intake, fresh air and rest; improvement of the scores of the mini nutritional assessment, of the sleep indices and also of the mental health; improvement in systolic blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate and partial oxygen saturation; decrease in waist circumference measurements; improved functional performance in the sit and stand test; decrease in pain points and improvement in the health perception of CHA. Conclusion: the intervention protocol based on eight lifestyle practices was able to improve the health aspects evaluated in CHA from health district one in the city of Uberaba.