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Introduction and Objective: The appropriate preparation of specialists from different community sectors as promoters to prevent unintentional injuries is an important support in the different actions. It is precisely the need to qualify these specialists as promoters that pave the way to this work.
Material and methods: The intervention study was carried out with 137 specialists from different community sectors and disciplines (health, education, jurists, mass organizations, traffic police and others), through 5 regional courses for the different provinces in the country. At first, the knowledge that the participants had on unintentional injuries was measured with an initial questionnaire designed to this purpose. After that, a training plan was taught with the principal aspects about adolescence, unintentional injuries and prevention. At the end, knowledge was measured again to observe its variation. The indicators were percentages, average and standard deviation. 
Results: At the beginning, 72,99 % of the participants considered themselves ready to prevent unintentional injuries (71,23 % among medical doctors, 85,71 among nurses and 62,07 among other professions). However, only 8,76 % passed the initial test (12,33 % among medical doctors, 2,86 % among nurses and 6,90 % among other professions). After the training plan, the amount of people who passed the final test increased to 90,51 %.
Discussion and Conclusions: The training plan was profitable because the knowledge on unintentional injuries in specialists from different community sectors and disciplines was highly and rapidly increased, in order to spread the acquired knowledge in their action areas.

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