Abstract

The user in psychological distress needs a service that provides a targeted assistance, that welcomes when required, acting as originator care device to the user on the network of health care. This study aimed to describe how people in psychological distress are perceived by the community in the voice of the community health worker. It is a qualitative research conducted with eighteen Community Health Agents, a Primary Care Unit Health (UAP) located in BE IV, in Fortaleza, Ceará. We used a semi-structured and individual interview. Data processing was due to the content analysis. Ethical and legal aspects on the advice No. 957,595. Through the speeches of ACS, it describes how the community perceives the person in psychic suffering and how it positions itself in the face of your everyday problems, as regards the rejection, prejudice, discrimination ne loss of identity. However it is emphasized that, because of being inserted in the community, the community health worker realizes more accurate way in which this social group is the person in mental distress. The rejection of the person who became ill is seen as a fairly common reaction, accompanied by prejudice and discrimination, marginalizing her from society. O usuário em sofrimento psíquico necessita de um serviço que proporcione uma assistência direcionada, que acolha no momento necessário, atuando como dispositivo ordenador do cuidado ao usuário na rede de atenção a saúde. Objetivou-se descrever como as pessoas em sofrimento psíquico são percebidas pela comunidade na voz do agente comunitário de saúde. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, realizada junto a dezoito Agentes Comunitários de Saúde, de uma Unidade de Atenção Primaria a Saúde (UAPS) situada na SER IV, em Fortaleza-Ceará. Utilizou-se uma entrevista semiestruturada e individual. O processamento dos dados deu-se pela análise de conteúdo. Aspectos éticos e legais sob parecer Nº 957.595. Através dos discursos dos ACS, descrevemos como a comunidade percebe a pessoa em sofrimento psíquico e como está se posiciona frente às problemáticas do seu cotidiano, no que se refere a rejeição, preconceito, discriminação e perda de identidade. Contudo destaca-se que, pelo fato de estar inserido na comunidade, o agente comunitário de saúde percebe de forma mais apurada como tal grupo social trata a pessoa em sofrimento mental. A rejeição da pessoa que adoeceu é observada como uma reação bastante comum, acompanhada do preconceito e discriminação, marginalizando-a da sociedade.

Highlights

  • Aiming to design a proposal for Mental Health in Primary Care, a diagnosis in this context has revealed limitations regarding programmatic initiatives, and the offer of actions directed to mental health

  • This fact is attributed to the difficulties faced by the teams of both sides when dealing with more operational aspects of the matricial strategy in mental health, namely: lack of material and human resources, excessive demands, work overload, difficulty with adherence to a matricial calendar, withdrawal of expert advice, great rotation or incompleteness of health teams, among others(1)

  • The whole process is susceptible to the clinical domain among psychiatrists; and on the other hand, the Family Health Strategy (FHS) is ‘unfamiliar’ with the universe of mental health, the required operational logic and its specific language

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Introduction

Aiming to design a proposal for Mental Health in Primary Care, a diagnosis in this context has revealed limitations regarding programmatic initiatives, and the offer of actions directed to mental health. The concrete principles of the psychiatric reform that guide the matricial cell actions of the network (Centers for Psychosocial Care - CAPS) are in conflict with the primary care principles when the teams need to work on integrated assistance plans. This fact is attributed to the difficulties faced by the teams of both sides when dealing with more operational aspects of the matricial strategy in mental health, namely: lack of material and human resources, excessive demands, work overload, difficulty with adherence to a matricial calendar, withdrawal of expert advice, great rotation or incompleteness of health teams, among others(1). The whole process is susceptible to the clinical domain among psychiatrists (and in the social imaginary); and on the other hand, the Family Health Strategy (FHS) is ‘unfamiliar’ with the universe of mental health, the required operational logic and its specific language

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