Training healthcare professionals in The Colombian Caribbean on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the validity of an educational intervention to train health professionals in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), measuring their level of satisfaction with it.

Materials and methods: An educational intervention was carried out with 198 professionals from the Colombian departments of Atlántico, Cesar, Magdalena and La Guajira, with the support of an interdisciplinary team for the development of face-to-face sessions and pedagogical material, provided by means of a virtual platform. A satisfaction survey with eight Likert scale questions and two open questions on “Points to improve and suggestions” was applied at the end of the intervention.

Results: None of the scores measuring satisfaction were lower than 5; the marked predominance of scores of ten (higher, always, than 70%) express that this is, in general, high.

Conclusions: The participants of the educational intervention expressed a high level of satisfaction, this opens the possibility of replicating it as it proves to be relevant for continuing health education; however, its validity will be reinforced to the extent that it proves to produce changes in the condition of patients with DMD.

Key words: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Continuing Medical Education, Diagnosis, Education, Rare Disease, Orphan Disease.