Percepção do agente comunitário de saúde em saúde mental em uma estratégia de saúde da familia

Abstract

This Work has the objective to identify the Health Community Agent’s(HCAs) point of view of the Mental Health in the Family Health Strategy reality with Multidisciplinary Residency, located in a city inside Rio Grande do Sul state, Brasil. It is a case study with a qualitative approach wich was realized based on a semi-structured interview to collect data. This study is according to the National Health Council Resolution 196/96. The informants of this study were eleven agents in the HCAs Program, some of them with several experience years, and others with a few experience months. This empirical data analysis brought two issues, the first one was the meaning of the word and its stigma, and the second one was the Integrality and Mental Health. Whith this experience in two years inside this area as a resident, was performed actions based on a direct contact with the service users, specially due to home visits, realized with the HCAs. This situation was an influence on the theme’s choice, it believes that the HCAs are fundamental for the precocious identification of mental health illness when they are together with vulnerable groups within their territories. The results showed that, taking in consideration the lack of structure of the team, a strong bound was created with the HCAs, due to the mutual welcomeness in this period of time. It was possible to understand the suffering they where passing and the necessity they have to externalize, sharing by that, the responsibility due to the territory demand. This situation was challenging and touching, to try to perform a humanized, systematized and planned work, facing the countless restrictions was really complex.