Family Health Strategy: characterization of users diagnosed with Mental Health

• Autor(a) principal: Waclawovsky, Aline Josiane
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Schwantes, Alessandra Luana, Rodrigues, Ana Eliza Belizario, Einloft, Fabiana, Alves, Caren Fabiana, Halberstadt, Bruna Marta Kleinert, Weiller, Teresinha Heck
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/11909
• topic: Atenção Primária à Saúde; Estratégia Saúde da Família; Saúde mental.; Atención Primaria de Salud; Estrategia de Salud Familiar; Salud mental.; Primary Health Care; Family Health Strategy; Mental health.

Objective: to characterize users with mental health diagnosis who access a Family Health Strategy in a city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Methodology: cross-sectional and descriptive study. After data collection, descriptive statistical analysis is performed. Results: the sample consisted of 266 medical records. The average age of users was 59.07 years, with 80.5% being female. Depression was the most prevalent diagnosis, followed by anxiety disorder. Single users predominate (13.2%), 40.6% live with family and / or partner, 38.7% had incomplete primary education, 77.1% used antiepressants and 50.4% benzodiazepines, 15.4 % use two different antidepressants, 1.5% two anticonvulsants and 2.3% two antipsychotics. Conclusion: the lack of information in the medical records was identified, limited the characterization of users. Depression was the most prevalent diagnosis, a situation that reinforces it as an important public health problem.