Perception of the nurses from health family strategy about the use of phytotherapy

• Autor(a) principal: Sampaio, Larissa Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Dayanne Rakelly de, Kerntopf, Marta Regina, Júnior, Francisco Elizaudo de Brito, Menezes, Irwin Rose Alencar de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Reme (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/reme/article/view/50259
• topic: Primary Health Care; Community Health Nursing; Phytotherapy; Atención Primaria de Salud; Enfermería de Salud Comunitaria; Fitoterapia; Atenção Primária à Saúde; Enfermagem em Saúde Comunitária; Fitoterapia

The use of medicinal plants is widespread around the world including Brazil, where there are several species and a large tradition in their use. It was aimed to know the perception of the nurses about the use of phytotherapy in Health Family Strategy (HFS). Exploratory descriptive study, qualitative approach, developed in Crato-CE with fifteen nurses from HFS. It was employed the Theme-Category Analysis. It were constructed six categories and two subcategories which were described the knowledge of professionals about phytotherapy, their views about use in primary care, the use of this practice and the strategies developed for this use. The results revealed that the knowledge of the interviewees mostly is narrow and informal, and they find difficulties to implement phytotherapy practices such as no valuation by the management and the rest of the health group. It should be emphasized as well the importance of developing strategies that enable the safe and efficient integration of phytotherapy in care and thus the appreciation of local culture.