Design, informação e saúde mental: adaptação do guia de gestão autônoma de medicamentos para adolescentes

Abstract

The Guide to Autonomous Management of Medicines is a device that it aims to involve workers and users of mental health services on the use of psychoactive drugs. This work originated from the research project titled “Guide for Autonomous Management of Mental Health infantojuvenil: an intervention proposal” and the Extension Project “Center of pharmaceutical assistance and mental health for the development of skills and competences”. The last one is supported by the Pro-rectory of Extension of the Federal University of Ceará that it belongs to the Group of Interdisciplinary Laboratorial Research of Collective Health, Social Pharmacy and Teenagers Mental Health - LISFARME, registered in the CNPq.It aims to develop a tool to assist therapeutic groups that discuss the care of patients with mental disorders in mental health services, such as the children’s psychosocial care centers in Fortaleza. These new formats are attractive to guide and regard the teenagers as actors in the construction of the solution. In order to do this, the tool involves the use of gami cation and graphic design to boost results. The age range of the study was between 13 and 18 years.The games are compound by letters containing information about the GGAM. The project was applied with a teenager group at CAPSi of the regional VI in Fortaleza, as a test to validate its ef cience. The games were widely accepted by teenagers and professionals in the therapeutic group. The project has been divided in three games that make up the complete KitGAM Guide for Autonomous Management of Juvenile Medications.