Demandas de saúde mental no território: uma pesquisa-ação

Abstract

The present study is an action research on mental health in the context of Primary Health Care, carried out in a medium-sized municipality in the interior of Minas Gerais. Understanding the steps to follow in the proposed methodology, the work is divided into different moments: Study 01 aims to describe the demands on mental health of users of a Primary Health Care Service, as perceived by profesional, basic health perceptions, research for them, to offer mental health care. Study 02, on the other hand, aims at the shared process of dividing actions directed at the mental health requests of users of a primary care hinterland, produced by community health agents from three Family Health strategies. In both studies, as a data collection, faith used the technique of the operative groups and an analysis of thematic containment. The results were organized into thematic axes that represent the main needs identified by health professionals, which, a priori, functioned as a strategy for information collection and planning. They are: Demands of mental health, Perceptions about personal resources / skills and resources of the health care network and Medicalization. The thematic axes are carried out by the second stage, comprising the moment of action and evaluation of the joint work process between researcher and participants, they are: Mental health in times of pandemic, Aspects that affect the possibility of a repercussion of care and mental health pandemic COVID - 19 about how community health agents and their work with the community. Observe the complexity of the health production process, as well as how sought after by the biomedical centrality and the scarcity of resources. In addition, the operative groups are configured as an important space for reflection and production of responses in the face of concrete situations.