Dependência química pelo crack : vivências e percepções dos discentes do internato de um curso médico

Abstract

This paper presents an article entitled " Crack Addiction: experiences and perceptions of students of a medical course, " which aims at investigating the studying experiences of internship students of a medical course with chemical dependence by crack, as well as identifying their perceptions about the issue. The internship takes place in the last four periods of the course and is the time for the in-service training under the direct supervision of college medical professors. It has as its goal to provide generalist education with knowledge, skills and appropriate attitude in situations of higher prevalence and relevance in medical practice. Crack addiction is a relevant social and public health problem, which can be found in all layers of society, causing losses in the various spheres of the user’s life. It is an analytic, cross-sectional study with a qualitative approach. All the ninth-grade students took part on the survey throughout the Mental Health Internship in the first semester of 2013. Recorded and transcribed data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews. After collection, the content analysis of Bardin was performed. Among the results it should be enhanced the students’ perception about addiction as a social problem and disease, the valuation of both the codependence and the social and existential damages caused by crack addiction, as well as the concern with preventing and dealing with the spread of the dependence on such drug. The results also led to the development of a product in video format entitled "A better medical training for dealing with crack addiction", which shows the changes that have already occurred in the teaching-learning process on crack issues in the psychiatric modules, as well as a project of broader intervention. It is expected with this work that it encourages students to get more interested in the study on crack addiction so that they may play their true social role while addressing such issues as professionals inserted in multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and intersectoral teams.