TREATMENT OF ALLERGIC RHINOSINUSITIS: knowledge of residents in family and community medicine

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Introduction: rhinosinusitis is an acute or chronic, infectious, allergic or irritating inflammation of the nasal mucosa, with chronic or recurrent cases usually determined by allergy. Objective: to assess the knowledge of family and community medicine residents about clinical care practices aimed at patients with allergic rhinitis. Methodology: a descriptive, cross-sectional, exploratory, exploratory research with a quantitative approach was carried out with residents in Family and Community Medicine at the University Center of Patos, based on data collection with a digital questionnaire containing 10 objective questions. After answering the document, each resident received a copy of the questions and the corresponding template. Results: 23 residents participated in this study (09 men and 14 women), 10 belonging to the first year of residency and 13 to the second, with an average age of 28 years and average time since graduation of 2 years. When asked how often they saw patients with rhinosinusitis, it prevailed weekly (69.6%). They were also asked to report on a scale from 0 to 10 how much they mastered the content, and the majority considered their knowledge to be average, attributing 7 (43.5%). In general, there was an average of 7.04 correct answers (4~9). Conclusions: thus, the study identified that residents had the necessary knowledge to care for patients with allergic rhinosinusitis in Primary Care, demonstrating the provision of safe and effective care, however, constant updates are needed, focusing on the most fragile themes: probiotics , bacterial lysates and specific immunotherapy.