Evaluation of the Tobacco Treatment Program of the brazilian Unified Health System in a municipality in the southwest of Minas Gerais

• Autor(a) principal: Reis, Ciro Luiz Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Viviani de, Carvalho, Cristopher Mateus, Reis, Leonardo Frasson, Ribeiro, Maria Inês Lemos Coelho
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/12695
• topic: Tabagismo; Tratamento; Abandono do Hábito de Fumar; Sistema Único de Saúde; Atenção primária à saúde.; Tobacco Use Disorder; Treatment; Smoking Cessation; Unified Health System; Primary health care.; Tabaquismo; Tratamiento; Cese del Hábito de Fumar; Sistema Único de Salud; Atención primaria de salud.

Introduction: In the 1980s, the first measures against smoking were taken by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. As of 2002, the Smoking Treatment Program (STP) was implemented in the Unified Health System (UHS), providing free treatment at the Family Health Strategies (FHS). Objectives: To evaluate and describe the PTT, applied to its users in a city in the southwest region of Minas Gerais, as well as to outline the sociodemographic profile of these individuals. Materials and methods: This is an observational, cross-sectional study with a quantitative and qualitative approach, whose data collection took place between March 2019 and March 2020 through the application of a systematic questionnaire to the professionals of the target ESFs and 52 users of the PTT enrolled in the program. Results: It was observed that most patients were female and that 68% were successful in smoking cessation after their submission to STP, with group therapy being evaluated by users as the best treatment. A significant association (p <0.05) was found between the clinical outcome and the type of treatment undertaken, the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the number of illnesses. According to the professionals' reports, adaptations based on the local reality of the city were necessary in order to improve the results of the STP. Conclusion: Research has shown that STP was effective in promoting smoking cessation. However, more studies are needed in order to assess the effectiveness of this program in other realities.