Fragilidades para implementação do cuidado ao adolescente na unidade de saúde da família.

Abstract

Adolescence constitutes a phase of biological and psychosocial transformations. For this reason, it is necessary to offer to adolescent a whole care, by a multi-professional team that considers their singularities phase in all its dimensions, in order to contribute to a healthy growth and development. Thus, to reorganize health practices, The Family health strategy, Search to promote better assistance to individual, family, and community, also contemplating adolescent population. However, Effective attention is still a challenge to professionals in face of some limitations in public care. Objective: Comprehend fragility found by professionals that work in the Family Health Unit to adolescent care implementation. Methodology: It is a descriptive-exploratory study, with a qualitative approach, developed at family Health Unit in an urban area in Cuité city, Paraíba, Brazil, with eight Health Professionals. Data collection was realized from October to November of 2017, through a half-structured script for an interview, the reports analyzed by content technique analysis. Result: the empirical appreciation material made possible the construction of four thematic categories: Adolescent behavior; 2. Lack of interest in disease prevention and health promotion; 3. Approach difficulty and interaction with adolescent; 4. (De) motivation and professionals (UN) knowledge. Discussion: It is understood that the challenging adolescents’ behavior causes them not to seek the Unit for Disease Prevention and health promotion, requiring professionals to adopt more active methodologies in a realization of educational actions. Moreover, difficulty in the interaction between professional and adolescent is another worrying finding, need for innovative approach strategies, such as appreciation of home visits and the creation of groups, seeking alternatives for teenagers to participate in services. It is important to pay attention to another fragility, which is the lack of knowledge of the adolescent's Health Handbook by the health team and the community, because the use of this instrument as a guiding strategy of care should be valued, since it seeks to Subsidize the work of professionals and establish a link between adolescent-professional. Final conclusion: From comprehension of fragility existing in adolescents care, we perceive the necessity for an expanded look to empower family health professionals through an implementation of an education permanent. Thus, they can act with a focus on the particularities and health necessities of this public, so unique, for the attainment of integral and effective attention as the primary attention to health is proposed.