Práticas integrativas e complementares em saúde: conhecimento e uso pelos fonoaudiólogos do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

Introduction: Despite several efforts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) to implement the Integrative and Complementary Health Practices (ICHP), it is assumed that speech-therapists, being used to tradicional Western medicine, still do not feel qualified to use said practices. These professionals seem to be unifamiliar with the usage of ICHPs and lack knowledge about its implementation policies (PNPIC). Objective: This study aims to verify, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the knowledge of speech therapists about ICHPs and its implementation policies in the SUS, seeking to identify whether these professionals use them in their clinical practice and, if they do, how they apply those (sinonimo pra practice), as well as the results of its applications. Those who do not apply ICHPs were asked if they intend to apply it at some point, and why. Methodology: The subjects were invited through publications on the authors' social networks, and data collection took place through the application of an online questionnaire. After collection, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data was performed. Results: this study verified that currently the areas of language (p=0.027) and orofacial motricity (p=0.023) are the ones that use PICS the most, while professionals working in Collective Health are the ones who are most familiar with the PNPIC (p<0.001).