Table 2.
Sociodemographic characterization of the professionals who answered the DFConhecimento instrument stratified depending on course completion.
| Sociodemographic characteristic |
n (%) |
p |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group A | Group B | Total | ||
| Sex | ||||
| Female | 59 (82) | 68 (84) | 127 (83) | 0.909a |
| Male | 13 (18) | 13 (16) | 23 (17) | |
| Education | ||||
| Degree | 13 (18) | 29 (36) | 42 (27) | 0.141b |
| Specialization | 40 (56) | 42 (52) | 82 (54) | |
| Master's degree | 10 (14) | 8 (10) | 18 (12) | |
| Doctorate degree | 6 (8) | 2 (2) | 8 (5) | |
| Professional category | ||||
| Nursing | 40 (56) | 48 (59) | 88 (58) | 0.765a |
| Others* | 32 (44) | 33 (41) | 65 (42) | |
| Number of years working in healthcare services | ||||
| Up to 4 years | 14 (19) | 30 (37) | 44 (29) | 0.110a |
| From 5 to 8 | 20 (28) | 19 (23) | 39 (25) | |
| 9 years or more | 29 (40) | 23 (28) | 52 (34) | |
| None | 9 (13) | 9 (11) | 18 (12) | |
| Type of health service | ||||
| Primary healthcare | 32 (44) | 41 (53) | 74 (48) | 0.706a |
| Others** | 40 (56) | 40 (57) | 79 (52) | |
| Previous experience assisting patients with sickle cell disease | ||||
| No | 13 (18) | 22 (27) | 35 (23) | 0.252a |
| Yes | 59 (82) | 59 (73) | 118 (77) | |
a
Chi-square test.
b
Fisher's exact test.
*
Others: biomedicine (2); physical education (1); pharmacy (7); physiotherapy (2); health management (3); manager (1); medicine (12); nutrition (8); odontology (4); pedagogy (1); psychology (5); social work (18); occupational therapy (1).
**
Others: Technical references and projects of the state and municipal health departments (27); hospital (15); educational institution (10); emergency care unit (7); blood center (7); laboratory (3); social work department (5); social control (1); does not work in the health area (4).