Questionário para Avaliação de pacientes de HIV

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Reprodutibilidade de um questionário para avaliação de conhecimentos, percepções e práticas em segurança sanitária alimentar de portadores de HIV/AIDS ambulatoriais
Reliability of a questionnaire to assess food safety knowledge, perceptions, and practices among outpatients with human immunodeficiency virus

Luísa Helena Maia Leite 1,2
William Waissmann 2,3
Alessandra Bento Veggi 3

Abstract
1 Hospital Escola
São Francisco de Assis,
Universidade Federal do
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro,
Brasil.
2 Instituto Nacional de
Controle de Qualidade em
Saúde, Fundação Oswaldo
Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
3 Escola Nacional de Saúde
Pública Sergio Arouca,
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz,
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Correspondência
L. H. M. Leite
Hospital Escola São Francisco de Assis, Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Av. Presidente Vargas 2863,
Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20210-031,
Brasil.
[e-mail]

Introdução

HIV-positive patients are at increased risk of acquiring infections, particularly those related to water and food. The risk could be reduced by educational interventions in the clinical setting related to food safety for the prevention of food-borne diseases. The current study aimed to analyze food safety knowledge, perceptions, and practices among HIV-positive outpatients.
A questionnaire was organized with five behavioral areas (cross contamination; personal hygiene; household hygiene; temperature control; and control of unsafe foods). The test-retest procedure demonstrated the questionnaire’s reliability. Kappa values varied among the questions: high for 84.6% (33); moderate for 12.8%
(5); and low for 2.5% (1). Based on the results, the instrument showed good reliability for most of the questions and can be used for surveys on food safety in HIV-positive outpatients.

As doenças veiculadas por água e alimentos representam um importante problema de saúde pública no mundo 1. Na atualidade