Assessment of Community Health Workers´' learning in an online course on oral cancer

Autores

  • Bruna Nogueira Peixoto dos Santos Universidade de Pernambuco
  • Rebeka Thiara Nascimento dos Santos Universidade de Pernambuco
  • Zilda Betânia Barbosa Medeiros de Farias Universidade de Pernambuco
  • Júlia Vanessa Bezerra Lima Universidade de Pernambuco
  • Hittalo Carlos Rodrigues de Almeida Universidade de Pernambuco Recife
  • Márcia Maria Fonseca da Silveira Universidade de Pernambuco
  • Ana Paula Veras Sobral Universidade de Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1679-1916.149204

Palavras-chave:

Oral cancer, community health workers, continuing education, distance learning, teleeducation

Resumo

The course “Abre a boca, meu povo! O que você precisa saber sobre o câncer de boca” is a self-instructional distance learning course on oral cancer for community health workers. The aim of this study was to assess the participants' learning on the subject and to see if there was an association between the variables of the participants' clinical-demographic profile and their performance in the knowledge assessments. This was a pre-post-test experimental study. The participants took an initial knowledge check and, at the end of all the activities, a final knowledge test. Both tests were similar. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test was applied, as well as the Wilcoxon test to compare the scores on the pre- and post-training tests and the Student's t-test, Mann-Whitney test, ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis test, with a significance level of 95%. In the sample of 205 participants, the results showed higher scores in the final knowledge test than in the initial check. Only the length of professional experience showed a positive statistical correlation with the scores on the initial knowledge test (p=0.000). The self-instructional course was effective in training, suggesting an improvement in the participants' knowledge of the subject.

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2025-08-06

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SANTOS, Bruna Nogueira Peixoto dos; SANTOS, Rebeka Thiara Nascimento dos; FARIAS, Zilda Betânia Barbosa Medeiros de; LIMA, Júlia Vanessa Bezerra; ALMEIDA, Hittalo Carlos Rodrigues de; SILVEIRA, Márcia Maria Fonseca da; SOBRAL, Ana Paula Veras. Assessment of Community Health Workers´’ learning in an online course on oral cancer. RENOTE, Porto Alegre, v. 23, n. 1, p. 37–48, 2025. DOI: 10.22456/1679-1916.149204. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/renote/article/view/149204. Acesso em: 11 ago. 2025.

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