Conhecimento e práticas dos profissionais da Estratégia Saúde da Família sobre as ferramentas de abordagem familiar

Abstract

The Family Health Strategy (FHS), reorganizing axis of the Unified Health System, recommends in its actions that the health teams, among other things, to target the focus of attention for families and use technology / appropriate tools to work with families. The purpose of this study was to understand the practice of FHS professionals in the perspective of the use of family approach tools. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. The empirical material was obtained through semi-structured interviews with characterization of questions of the participants and the knowledge and practices about the family approach tools. Graduated professionals attended the study who compose the FHS teams in a health facility. Data were collected in September 2016. The technique of Content Analysis was used, resulting in thematic categories: the concept of family, focus of attention, training to work with families and knowledge and practice of the family approach tools. It was observed in the study that all the professionals were female, had average time of action in the strategy of 13 years, most of the participants had a specialization course in family health. Professionals showed the predominant form, a concept of family is not restricted to consanguinity, they reported that although hearken to families, in practice the focus of attention is still the individual reported that the training and further training, were not content that addressed the family assessment, as the knowledge and use of tools approach: genogram, ecomap and family life cycle, all said to ignore and not use such tools. The study indicates the need for qualification and instrumentalization of professionals and the importance and use of familiar tools approach, which could address the identified weaknesses, contributing to the improvement of attention and care to families and communities.