Qualidade dos dados das notificações de violência interpessoal e autoprovocada do SINAN, Salvador, Bahia (2015-2019).

Abstract

Violence is a social phenomenon with devastating consequences to the victims and to society as whole, but it is still possible to find social groups an territories in which this impact is higher, hence the need of a surveillance system that provides data and good quality epidemiological information from health services notifications. The health department, with its work force and territorial and institutional presence, has potential and duty on approaching this social problem. Therefore, it was analyzed the quality of notifications of interpersonal and self-inflicted violence in Salvador-BA, aiming to assess the surveillance system data quality, with completeness and consistence as criteria, during the period of 2015 to 2019. Besides, this research aimed to understand the formative needs of work force from the act of notificating by assessing the quality of the information system. So, secondary data was used, of public access, via SINAN, from Health Department of Bahia (SESAB). The data quality was evaluated by its completeness and 16 variables were analyzed in the violence notification file, between mandatory and essential fields. It was also evaluated the consistence of data by selecting some variables in which they were analyzed by proportion of filling incompletion. Evaluation of 16 variables points out that, in the analyzed period, the notification of interpersonal and self-inflicted violence file filling was bad, for 42% of the information was ignored. The consistence evaluation among variables presented in this research showed up excellent performance, with 99,9% of satisfactory data proportion. The ignored data directly reflects the information quality, and it becomes necessary to stablish critical attention over de epidemiological results. Furthermore, understanding the work process in relation to violent situations in which one may analyze and intervene, making possible the educational process to health workers. The educational actions in the health department to assist and notificate violence must make one reflect upon sociocultural and economic relations, which are part of society and where health work happens, therefore stablishing more sense an intentionality on registering that data.