INTERVENTION PROJECT IN THE COMMUNITY: PRESENTATION OF A PRIMER ON CHILD CARE

Introduction: To offer quality health care to children is one of SUS (Unified Public Health System) priority goals. When a child is born, its family receives a booklet which provides the main guidelines about its growing and development. This strategy, however, has proved not to solve all parents´ doubts. Goal: To promote prevention and health actions, by means of health education.Methodology: We have worked out a questionnaire in order to raise the main doubts regarding child care from 0 to 2 years, focusing the most important issues in this area (feeding, hygiene, immunization, development and growing) and this questionnaire was filled in during 34 medical appointments at the Cuiabá-MT Family Clinic (PSF-Family Health Program), at CPA II District, from August to September 2015, during the curricular activities of the Course of Medicine of UFMT (Federal University of Mato Grosso) (medical internship). Results and conclusions: More than 90% of parents presented doubts about hygiene, 88,2% about feeding, 29,4% about immunization, 5,8% about growing and development. Notwithstanding the guidelines received during the medical appointments, most parents did not have satisfactory knowledge about the main issues in child care. Based on the answers, a succinct and illustrative primer was prepared answering the most frequent doubts and a lecture was given to the community parents trying to answer their questions.