O paciente diabético e a depressão como comorbidade na Estrátegia de Saúde da Família Serra Verde, Belo Horizonte/ MG

Abstract

In developing the Situational Diagnosis Health Center Sierra Verde in Belo Horizonte / MG was observed that the major health problems of the enrolled adult population were related to the large number of patients with diabetes, hypertension, and depressed, from which it could be seen problem involving diabetic patients and depression as resulting from this condition, especially in the Family Health Strategy. So that we can take effective measures for the care of these patients is of utmost importance to know the characteristics of these conditions in addition to the risks associated factors, establishing an intervention plan to assist in directing teams of the same problems that justify choice of the subject.This study aims to identify a profile of people with diabetes who have comorbid depression as registered at the Health Center Sierra Verde, describe and verify chronic disease DM and depression as well as their risk factors, performing them in three steps: situational analysis, literature review and drafting of the action plan. The studies addressed as reference for understanding the objects of study. The studies analyzed, it is observed that there is a psychological and behavioral interaction between diabetes and depression, thus the control becomes more difficult, increasing the risk of both diseases. One of the drawbacks of not treating depression is diabetic symptom of disenchantment towards life, thus providing a low adherence to treatment of the same, inadequate control of blood sugar levels, excessive drinking and increased risk of complications disease. For the preparation of the proposed intervention was necessary to make an analysis able to identify among various causes, those considered most important in the origin of the problem, those that need to be addressed and prioritized as the most critical, to be initially worked, since all not be solved at the same time, considering the difficulties due to lack of financial resources, human, physical, political experienced by the Center for Health To perform this analysis, we used the concept of "critical node" proposed by Situational Strategic Planning (ESP) Simplified, which was designed by Carlos Matus.