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      Agentes comunitários de saúde e o aleitamento materno: desafios relacionados ao conhecimento e à prática Translated title: Community health workers and breastfeeding: challenges related to knowledge and practice

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          RESUMO Objetivo: identificar o conhecimento de Agentes Comunitários de Saúde sobre as práticas e a promoção do aleitamento materno. Métodos: estudo transversal, descritivo, inquérito, quanti-qualitativo realizado com amostra de 148 agentes. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio da aplicação de um questionário semiestruturado, com questões abertas e fechadas. Foram analisadas as variáveis: sociodemográficas, capacidade para orientação sobre o aleitamento, participação em treinamentos/cursos, conhecimentos sobre vantagens do aleitamento para mãe e bebê. Realizou-se análise estatística descritiva, foram empregados os testes Qui-quadrado, Exato de Fisher e G, ao nível de significância 5%. As questões abertas foram analisadas segundo a técnica de pesquisa qualitativa. Resultados: aproximadamente, 45,95% dos agentes não foram capacitados para realizar orientação prática das nutrizes sobre o aleitamento e 63,30% nunca participaram de cursos sobre amamentação. A maioria citou vantagens do aleitamento relacionadas, somente, ao bebê, emergindo as categorias: nutrição do bebê, imunológica, desenvolvimento/saúde do bebê, dentição/ossos. Houve associação estatisticamente significante entre capacidade de orientar as mães na amamentação e participação em treinamentos (p<0,001). Conclusão: os agentes não haviam participado de cursos de capacitação para acompanhar as nutrizes, apresentaram conhecimento limitado sobre a prática e a promoção do aleitamento, e as visitas domiciliares realizadas pós-parto ocorreram tardiamente.

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          ABSTRACT Purpose: to identify the knowledge of community health workers on practices and promotion of breastfeeding. Methods: this is a cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to investigate a sample of 148 health workers quantitatively and qualitatively. Data collection was performed by applying a semi-structured questionnaire with open and closed questions. The following variables were analysed: sociodemographic data, capacity to provide breastfeeding guidance, participation in training and courses, and knowledge of the breastfeeding benefits for mother and baby. Statistical analysis was performed with chi-square test, exact Fisher’s test and G-test at significance level of 5%. Open questions were analysed according to the qualitative research technique. Results: approximately, 45.95% of the health workers were not trained to provide nursing mothers with practical guidance on breastfeeding, and 63.30% never attended courses on breastfeeding. The majority of health workers mentioned breastfeeding benefits only for the baby, namely: nutrition, immunology, development, health, dentition, and bones. There was a statistically significant association between the capacity to provide breastfeeding guidance and participation in training (p<0.001). Conclusion: the health workers had not participated in training courses to follow up nursing mothers, in addition to having a limited knowledge on practices and promotion of breastfeeding and paying late post-natal home visits.

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          Effectiveness of community health workers delivering preventive interventions for maternal and child health in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

          Background Community Health Workers are widely utilised in low- and middle-income countries and may be an important tool in reducing maternal and child mortality; however, evidence is lacking on their effectiveness for specific types of programmes, specifically programmes of a preventive nature. This review reports findings on a systematic review analysing effectiveness of preventive interventions delivered by Community Health Workers for Maternal and Child Health in low- and middle-income countries. Methods A search strategy was developed according to the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre’s (EPPI-Centre) guidelines and systematic searching of the following databases occurred between June 8 – 11th, 2012: CINAHL, Embase, Ovid Nursing Database, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and POPLINE. Google, Google Scholar and WHO search engines, as well as relevant systematic reviews and reference lists from included articles were also searched. Inclusion criteria were: i) Target beneficiaries should be pregnant or recently pregnant women and/or children under-5 and/or caregivers of children under-5; ii) Interventions were required to be preventive and delivered by Community Health Workers at the household level. No exclusion criteria were stipulated for comparisons/controls or outcomes. Study characteristics of included articles were extracted using a data sheet and a peer tested quality assessment. A narrative synthesis of included studies was compiled with articles being coded descriptively to synthesise results and draw conclusions. Results A total of 10,281 studies were initially identified and through the screening process a total of 17 articles detailing 19 studies were included in the review. Studies came from ten different countries and consisted of randomized controlled trials, cluster randomized controlled trials, before and after, case control and cross sectional studies. Overall quality of evidence was found to be moderate. Five main preventive intervention categories emerged: malaria prevention, health education, breastfeeding promotion, essential newborn care and psychosocial support. All categories showed some evidence for the effectiveness of Community Health Workers; however they were found to be especially effective in promoting mother-performed strategies (skin to skin care and exclusive breastfeeding). Conclusions Community Health Workers were shown to provide a range of preventive interventions for Maternal and Child Health in low- and middle-income countries with some evidence of effective strategies, though insufficient evidence is available to draw conclusions for most interventions and further research is needed.
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            Can early postpartum home visits by trained community health workers improve breastfeeding of newborns?

            Whether postpartum visits by trained community health workers (CHWs), reduce newborn breastfeeding problems. Community health workers made antenatal and postpartum home visits promoting newborn care practices including breastfeeding. CHWs assessed neonates for adequacy of breastfeeding and provided hands-on support to mothers to establish breastfeeding. History and observation data of 3495 neonates were analyzed to assess effects of CHW visitation on feeding problems. Inappropriate breastfeeding position and attachment were the predominant problems (12 to 15%). Only 6% of newborns who received home visit by CHWs within 3 days had feeding difficulties, compared to 34% of those who did not (odds ratio: 7.66, 95% confidence interval (CI): 6.03 to 9.71, P=0.00). Latter group was 11.4 times (95% CI: 6.7 to 19.3, P=0.00) more likely to have feeding problems as late as days 6 to 7, than the former. Counseling and hands-on support on breastfeeding techniques by trained workers within first 3 days of birth, should be part of community-based postpartum interventions.
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              Evidências científicas dos "Dez Passos para o Sucesso do Aleitamento Materno"

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                Contributors
                Role: ND
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                Journal
                rcefac
                Revista CEFAC
                Rev. CEFAC
                ABRAMO Associação Brasileira de Motricidade Orofacial (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                1982-0216
                March 2017
                : 19
                : 2
                : 198-212
                Affiliations
                [1] Araçatuba São Paulo orgnameUniversidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho orgdiv1Faculdade de Odontologia de Araçatuba Brazil
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                S1516-18462017000200198
                10.1590/1982-0216201719213216
                657c7271-3276-4ec1-ad9d-3cc24547d145

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                Community Health Works,Breastfeeding,Knowledge,Agentes Comunitários de Saúde,Aleitamento Materno,Conhecimento

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