Práticas integrativas e complementares nas residências em saúde no hospital universitário

Abstract

Integrative and Complementary Practices is the name given by the Ministry of Health to what has been called Alternative and Complementary Medicines in the international scientific literature. PICS can be seen as an important health care strategy, especially as they consider the person as a whole, different from the biomedical model. This Course Completion Academic Work consists of a scientific article and a product, derived from a field research with second-year residents enrolled in the Medical Residency in Internal Medicine and in the Multiprofessional Residency in Health in the Area of Adult and Elderly from the university hospital in the state of Alagoas, as having completed more than a year of residency at the hospital, working in some scenarios and could have experienced PICS at home, as in the monitoring of health residents during the preceptorship at the university hospital, there was a lack of knowledge about PICS among students and health professionals, which interfere in health care, self-care, as well as in the offer to users of the service. In this context, the research has the general objective of evaluating the applicability of PICS among second-year residents of a university hospital in Alagoas. This is an exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative approach carried out in 2021, which used the interview as a data collection technique. Content analysis according to Malheiros' methodology, with the composition of three categories: knowledge in relation to PICS; experiences with PICS and PICS during the COVID-19 pandemic. From the analysis, the lack of knowledge of some residents regarding the topic is noticeable, the participants reflect on the need for better and greater knowledge about PICS, perceive and identify the need for PICS for their lives during the COVID pandemic -19. There is a clear need to acquire experience and knowledge of PICS in health education and the importance of this topic for the multidisciplinary team. The hospital studied offers some PICS, such as acupuncture, auriculotherapy, meditation, massage therapy, cupping and floral therapy in the outpatient clinic, although the topic is not addressed in the residency programs in health as a mandatory content, but in some disciplines and scenarios of action of the residents made it possible to a practical experience. The study contributed in the scope of professional practice, through the dialogue about the PICS, seeking to stimulate the search for more knowledge and their implementation in the teaching of health residencies and, consequently, in the assistance to the user of health services. Based on these results, a workshop on Integrative and Complementary Practices for integral and humanized care was carried out at the university hospital, to stimulate PICS in health residencies in the hospital context with residents of the first and second year, with the intention of promoting a reflection on the research topic and share knowledge. In addition, it made it possible to achieve the purposes of the Professional Master's, demonstrating an opportunity to share knowledge about PICS in educational professional practice and to disseminate the work developed at the hospital on PICS.