Estratégia saúde da família: conhecendo os usuários de saúde mental

Abstract

Introduction: Mental health care involves the interrelation between the multiprofessional team, user, family and health services. Primary Health Care (PHC) is considered the preferred gateway for all users in the health care network. Objective: to know the users with mental health diagnoses that access a Family Health Strategy in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. Methodology: a cross - sectional, descriptive, quantitative approach. The data were collected from secondary data, obtained through electronic medical records. Data collection was performed in November 2018. Afterwards, the data were stored in the Excel 2007 Program and, afterwards, a descriptive statistical analysis was performed. Results: the sample consisted of 266 medical records. The mean age was 59.07 years, being 80.5% female. Depression was the most prevalent diagnosis, followed by anxiety disorder. There were predominant single users (13.2%), 40.6% lived with family members and with the partner, 38.7% had incomplete primary education, 77, 1% used antidepressants and 50.4% of benzodiazepines. In addition, 15.4% used two different antidepressants, 1.5% two anticonvulsants and 2.3% two antipsychotics, 46.2% used one drug class and 36.1% two classes. Conclusion: the lack of information in the medical records was identified, limited the characterization of the users. Depression was the most prevalent diagnosis, a situation that reinforces it as an important public health problem.