Adesão de usuários ao tratamento terapêutico na atenção primária à saúde

Abstract

The difficulty of patients to follow the guidelines of the multidisciplinary team of health in the use of prescribed medications, diet or change in lifestyle; this is a problem in the reality of primary health care. Studies shows that many factors may contribute to nondrug treatment adherence, such as patients consider that the medication is ineffective; unpleasant side effects; low education; lack of access to medication; relationship difficulties between professional-patient. On the concept of membership, it is understood as the use of prescription drugs or other procedures in at least 80% of its total observing times, doses and treatment time. Upon situational diagnosis of the area covered by Team Six Health Center Independence, several problems were identified such as: chronic lack of health professionals in the team, mainly medical; sense of abandonment on the part of users and monitoring by the team; large number of patients with chronic uncontrolled frame and without proper monitoring, membership difficulty of users to treatment and management of prescription drugs, with the latter two considered as most relevant by staff. A situation that reflects much about the other problems the team has faced. Thus, following the strategy of provisions in the Family Health aimed at reorienting the care model through health promotion, care and disease prevention, with a focus not only on the disease, but also on the individual as a whole, this study it aims to develop actions to improve adherence users to recommended treatment by the team six Independence Health Center. So it was adopted as methodology discussions between team members, literature reviews and practical guidelines to be used in intervention considering the characteristics of the enrolled population in the territory covered by team.