The impact on training of the dynamic model for assessment and family intervention

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Introduction: The Dynamic Model for Assessment and Family Intervention (MDAIF), as an operative theoretical referential underlying the assessment and family inter-vention practices, was adopted for the family nursing specialty, in Portugal. Objective: To assess the impact of the professional practice of MDAIF on the as-sessment and family intervention practices of Primary Healthcare Nurses. Methods: A study descriptive case. Forty-nine nurses were invited to participate in the pre-training moment and forty-three in the post-training. Participants were as-ked to sign a written informed consent and were delivered an open-question form applied in the two moments. The data retrieved were submitted to content analysis with a posteriori categorization. Results and discussion: In the pre-training moment, the most common family as-sessment practices were "Areas of attention MDAIF", "Evaluative data of the MDAIF"; "Attention Individual areas"; and for the most common family intervention practices", "action"; "client"; "health programmes"; "prevention levels".After the training "MDAIF dimensions"; and "individual areas of attention", with occasional incidence. In the family intervention, the categories identified were "MDAIF areas of attention" and "action". It is well known that knowledge transfer into practice in family health nursing is a challenge and that only a relatively small percentage of the training is effectively applied, however, in this study it is possible to observe that training had a positive impact in practice changes. The actions focused on care provided to each member of the family changed to care targeted at the family as a client. Conclusion: Training has enabled knowledge transfer to professional performance

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