Estrategia educativa para capacitar asistentes de enfermería sobre lactancia materna

abstract training activity for all the workers of the cuban health system is permanent. an applied, with educative intervention, almost experimental having a cross-sectional character research was carried out with the purpose of assessing the level of knowledge and skills that nursing assistants (na) had about breastfeeding procedures; this allowed the implementation of a new 40 hours-duration strategy establishing an initial and final evaluation at "hermanos cruz" university outpatient clinic from february to june 2008. the universe (49 na) was chosen by means of an intentional sample. the research methods used were empirical, surveys (questions and verbal interview), descriptive and deductive statistics ( odds ratio test 95% of certainty). results: before the intervention the < of the nursing assistants had knowledge of breastfeeding procedures. after the educative intervention, skills, level of information, duration, manual extraction and ways of conservation increased (p<0,01) significantly. the training course to teach breastfeeding techniques for nursing assistants showed a very significant change in the achievement of knowledge and skills.