Cuidado às pessoas com transtorno mental: percepção de trabalhadores de uma instituição de longa permanência

Abstract

Introduction: The Brazilian Psychiatric Reform has as main feature the deinstitutionalization of people with mental disorder. However, due to the absence and / or weakness of community-based services, this reality has not materialized as predicted. So when exhausted the available care, family resort to alternatives such as long-stay institutions for the elderly (LTCF). In this sense, the Graduate Completion Work This aimed to analyze the perception of workers in a long-stay institution for the Elderly on the care of people with mental disorders in this space. Method: Qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study in an institution of long-stay to the interior of Rio Grande do Sul Elderly Participated 19 workers, whose data were collected through semi-structured interviews, recorded and respecting the ethical principles of Resolution 466 /12 of the National Health Council from the thematic analysis proposed by Minayo were built three thematic categories: care for people with mental disorders in the eyes of workers; challenges of workers in the care of daily; feeling of workers across the care process. The results showed care perceptions aimed at humanization, encouraging the autonomy of people with mental disorders, and also a reasoned care in the control and monitoring. It also showed a theoretical and practical unpreparedness worker for care in mental health. We conclude that the perception of care by the institution workers study is polysemic and also requires a theoretical and practical deepening with respect to issues related to mental health.