Abstract
The approach of palliative care (PC) in Brazil is still not consolidated. Only in 2001 the Ministry of Health launched the National Program for Humanization of Hospital Care to officiate assists in PC. The number of services dedicated to PC does not cover the demands in the country and health professionals, including psychologists, have difficulty identifying related practices. The objective of this study was to understand the knowledge and practices on the PC of active psychologists at two public hospitals in the city of Campina Grande-PB, Brazil. It was adopted a qualitative and quantitative approach and it was administered a demographic questionnaire and an interview. Reading data was guided by the analysis of enunciation and by descriptive statistics and was demonstrated through the association of meanings trees. The sample comprised 21 psychologists. The results point out an essentially female sample (90.5%), and 95% of the
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