Conscientização da população da unidade de saúde do bairro Pompéia sobre o Diabetes Mellitus.

Abstract

The Diabetes Mellitus carries high costs in the health system, triggers serious complications and has a straight relation with poor education and inadequate care by users. It is a disease that grows every year around the world and requires measures for monitoring and control. The aim of this work was to draw up a proposal of intervention in the Basic Health Unit of the Pompéia neighborhood, in order to raise awareness of Diabetes among the whole population through educative actions that put these individuals at the center of care a nd optimize satisfactory results. Regarding the specific aims, to propose strategies for modification of life habits of users with Diabetes and educative actions related with the cares of Diabetes and increase of the treatment. For this, it was used the Si tuational Strategic Planning, that allowed to identify the main problem, followed by a bibliographic survey on the subject and, lastly, the elaboration of the action plan. The selected critical nodes were sedentary, inadequate diet and low awareness of dia betes in the covered population, related with a decrease in the adherence of the treatment. Through educative actions the project proposed that the individuals with diabetes should be the central point of care. Two main action were elaborated: 1) Aware Hea lth Project, in order to inform the users about the characteristics of Diabetes, in order to increase the adherence of the treatment; 2) More Health, with non pharmacological measures (corporal practices), in order to modify practices related with eating h abits (diet) and physical activity. It was possible to conclude that the health education contributes to users with a better level of information about Diabetes. By the present intervention, it is aimed to achieve a decrease in the sedentary lifestyle, cha nge in the diet, betterment of quality of life and increase in the adherence of the treatment.