Visita domiciliária na atenção à saúde: revisão integrativa da literatura

• Autor(a) principal: Leite, Bruna Michelle Belém
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/3990
• topic: Atenção Primária à Saúde; Visita Domiciliar

Home Visit (HV) is a technology used in health care which, although it is not recent practice, is present in the entire world. Evidence-based practice is the theoretical and methodological framework adopted in this study which selected the integrative review as research method. Results found in the clinical practice of visits will be used in both primary care and nursing care. This study aims at assessing the scientific production about HV and its concept, methodology, purpose as well as situations available in both national and international literature. CINAL, PubMed, Lilacs, Scielo and Cochrane were the five databases used for the selection of articles. The sample of this review consisted of 13 articles concerning HV in primary care. Results showed that the ones who study HV are still not worried about conceptualizing it. Based on these findings it can be inferred that since HV is a technology incorporated into primary care service routine, it is unnecessary, for some authors, the conceptualization of HV. The articles have evaluated this technology and its effectiveness in health care services. It was observed a variety of population groups receiving visits, such as, infants, children, adolescents, the elderly and the ones in specific situations: women in recovery stage, pregnant women and diabetics. However, there is the predominance of visits to the elderly aged between 70 and 84. Concerning the professionals carrying out the visits, there was some variety as well, but nurses, followed by health workers, are the main conductors of such practice. Given the health-disease process, HV has been held in the care focusing on the disease, which fulfills the service temporarily, devaluing the favorable effect of family environment for actions of health promotion, prevention or diagnosis of diseases. This study aimed at providing information to improve the practice of HV in primary care as well as encouraging nurses to develop researches which have as result strong evidences related to the production of new methodologies for HV to specific groups in primary care.