Características das evidências sobre as capacitações educacionais para desenvolver a competência de profissionais da saúde sobre atividade física ou comportamento sedentário: revisão de escopo

Abstract

The objective of this scoping review was to describe the characteristics of studies that evaluated the effectiveness of educational training to improve the professional competence of health workers on physical activity or sedentary behavior. The research question was formulated based on the Population, Intervention, Control, and Outcome Study anagram. Syntaxes were developed, with keywords and descriptors standardized by the Health Sciences Descriptors and Medical Subject Headings, in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, to locate experimental studies published between 2000 and 2023 in the Bireme, SciElo, PubMed, and Web of Science databases. Two trained evaluators screened the studies in the stages of reading titles, abstracts, and full text in a blinded and independent manner. Thirty-one studies were eligible for data extraction. Most of the studies were published between 2013 and 2021 (77%) and conducted in countries such as Brazil, the United States of America, and Canada (61%). When analyzing the outcomes of the findings, it was observed that there was an increase in confidence (n=8), knowledge (n=7), ability (n=3) and attitude (n=5) of health professionals to advise on physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior. Therefore, the recommended follow-up for constructing interventions on the subject are training courses with their content distributed in up to five modules, which allow participants to practice what was learned, with an average duration of the educational training courses of six hours (6.34 ± 8.5) and preferably with pre, post and maintenance assessments. Future studies could offer hybrid training courses, made available to all categories in the health area and describe the training courses in their entirety só that they are replicable and reproducible.