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Community nursing attitudes towards environmental interventions for health promotion

Abstract:

An estimated of 12.5 million annual deaths, which represent nearly a quarter of global fatalities, are attributed to unhealthy environments. WHO identified environmental factors susceptible to management or change, which can be modified through key interventions, in order to reduce the morbidity and mortality of a hundred diseases or conditions. The purpose of this study was to compare and analyze the attitudes of community nursing staff regarding environmental interventions for the prevention of infectious and parasitic diseases, neonatal and nutritional conditions, and noncommunicable diseases; since to the extent that they were pbkp_redisposed and had a positive attitude towards the interventions, this should influence their proactive behavior and their next health promotion activities. The final sample of 158 participants was made up of 21 male nurses and 137 female nurses, aged between 22 and 53 years, with a median of 29 years (±6.74). For the elaboration of the questionnaire of attitudes, the section "Diseases and injuries and key environmental interventions" of the WHO global report entitled "Preventing diseases through healthy environments" was taken as a basis. Attitude indices were obtained by intervention and category according to the model proposed by Manassero & Vásquez. The results showed that the attitudinal indices for the "adequate" category are positive and the highest, slightly positive for the plausible and slightly negative for "naive", that is, the nurses, can more easily identify appropriate actions, It makes it difficult for him to identify plausible sentences and more naive ones. This allows verifying that nurses' attitudes can be paradoxical and confusing. Being evident the need to carry out continuous educational sessions and in accordance with international and national scientific and political updates. It is recommended to include explicit and personal reflection as a basic instrument to achieve attitudinal change.