Desafios do Cuidado Integral à Doença Falciforme: Limites e Possibilidades de sensibilização profissional através de um curso na modalidade à distância (EAD).

Abstract

Comprehensive care is one of the basic principles of the SUS and is considered one of the most important pillars of Primary Health Care. We can consider that this principle includes actions to prevent diseases and injuries, promotion, and rehabilitation of individual and collective health. It covers network care, encompassing the three levels of health care, with the participation of the multidisciplinary team. It is also a concept that reveals the complexity of care, considering the psychosocial character of illness, in the dimension of comprehensive care. Integrality in Sickle Cell Disease demands articulation of networkcare, the realization of a line of care and humanized care. It also demands permanent education actions for health professionals, to repair the historical invisibility of this disease in health training courses. Comprehensive care for people with Sickle Cell Disease is still a goal to be achieved, despite the advances achieved in the last fifteen years. Thus, it was established as the general objective of this study to discuss the limits and potentialities of an education strategy developed, aiming to sensitize health professionals in Primary Care and other levels of care, so that they could develop and stimulate in their work environment practices based on the integrality of care. As part of the qualitative methodology, a script for semi-structured interviews was developed for this study, subdivided into seven categories, applied to thirty students from Salvador who agreed to participate in the research. The interviews were read exhaustively and separated by categories and analyzed according to Bardin's guidelines (2011) that indicates content analysis with prediction of three relevant phases such as pre-analysis, exploration of the material and treatment of the results, inference, and interpretation. The analysis of the interviews allowed the categorization into themes that were confronted with the literature. The analysis revealed that, despite the limitations of a short and distance course, the strategies used were able to sensitize these professionals in relation to sickle cell disease, contributing to changes in the reception and care of people with DF in their scope of work.