Permanent Health Education for the qualification of the User Assistance of Psychoactive Substances
Permanent Health Education. Psychoactive substance users. Multi-professional team.
The Brazilian psychiatric reform (RP) resulted in a series of transformations when it comes to practices, knowledge, cultural and social values that permeated the context of treatment and care for people with mental disorder and/or psychoactive substance users. Since 2003, through the Integral Attention Politics to Alcohol and Drug Users, Brazil restated drug usage as a complex public health phenomenon, claiming as a theoretical-political-ethical landmark the Damage Reduction (RD) perspective. To formalize the attention to psychoactive substances users, through the GM 225/02 ordinance new rules and guidelines were established for the organization of services which offer assistance in metal health, the Psychosocial Attention Centers (CAPS), including CAPS meant to assist people who make abusive/harmful use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances, the CAPS ad. As a professional for this service, it was observed the need for permanent education action for the team, strategy guaranteed by legislation, but absent in CAPS ad daily basis, in Caicó-RN County. Developing actions for permanent health education was aimed, with a Caicó-RN CAPS ad multi-professional team, therefore, it was sought to identify the previous knowledge of the team about psychoactive users assistance, under the Mental Health National Politics perspective and promote workshops related to the work process in health and mental health. Approved by the Ethics Committee (CAAE nº 89520618.2.0000.5568), the research was developed in two phases, consisted by a questionnaire ad six thematic workshops, between November of 2018 and January of 2019, at CAPS AD. The questionnaire is consisted by professional characterization data (Part A) and by assertives (Part B), condensed in seven areas, answered before and after the workshops, involving the following themes: Psychoactive Substances (SPA)and Chemical Dependency; Psychiatric Reform (RP); Mental Health National Politics for SPA Users; Damage Reduction; National Politics for Humanization; Extended Clinic and PTS; Clinic and Care Management. About seven professionals participated in each of the workshops. The preliminary assertive analysis (before and after the workshops) seems to indicate changes in answers, which shows a possible relevance in the service activities context.