Saúde mental e mulheres: sobrevivência, sofrimento e consumo de diazepam

Abstract

Research of descriptive qual batí ve nature with histórica!-structural approach. The theoreí ica! plan was driven by the First two st ages of the Theory of Nursing Praxis Intervention in Collective Health: reception ofthe objective reality and interpretation oh the objective reality. The Diazepam consumption by women of the public health System was the object ofour study. With the intent to analyze the use of the Diazepam arnong a group of women of a public Service of the municipal district of Sobral, we sought the apprehension of the factors related to the co ns u m pt i o n o f t h i s drug a nd t h e typ e o f a t í end ance that co nsu m i n g wo me n o f D i az ep a m ha ve been receiving in the Health public sector. The field research was accomplished in the period of July to October, 1998. For collection ofthe Information, a semi-structured interview have been used, applied to 15 Diazepam consuming women and to 05 doctors. This study composes four parts. The woman's inserí in the society, the consequences and decisive attendance to the health visualizing the structural dimension. Histórica!, economic and cultural aspects ofthe municipal district of Sobral and the attendance of the woman*s Health embracing the structural and private dimensions. The conditions of the womeifs existence and the Diazepam consumption delineating the singular dimension. And finally, the understanding of the interdependence ofthe dimensions with the identification of the referring fragility to the study object. The resuíts show that, histórica!ly, the attendance to the womants health doesn'1 assist their needs. In Sobral the activities of attention to the women's health are limited to the gravídico-puerperal cycle. In the health Service the attendance to the Diazepam consuming women is inadequate, with approaches which are often not very technical. There is no accompaniment or controi of this practice. The Diazepam consuming women group belongs to a low social class and they are using this medication mainly for their liven up sufferings, brought day by day by concerns with the privations of the Family supporí, evidencing a problem in the social sector. Sobral needs with urgency to equip itself with public politics that make possible the\decrease of poverty. Concomitant to this the implantation of a politics of mental health that includes prevention programs to present problems in the municipal district.