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- Title
LIVES OF PLEASURE AND SUFFERING IN THE WORK OF THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AGENT.
- Authors
Broch, Daiane; Donini Souto, Lucia Helena; Lisboa Riquinho, Deise; Dal Pai, Daiane
- Abstract
This study aimed to know the experiences of pleasure and suffering in the Community Health Agent job. Descriptive research, qualitative approach and theoretical perspective of Psychodynamics work, developed with 25 community health agents of different family health teams, in August 2015 period to February 2016, groups semi-structured interviews and focal. The information collected was submitted to thematic categorization. The themes have been identified: labour relations and the experiences of pleasure-pain and; symptoms of physical and mental illness. The experiences of pleasure are supported in the possibilities of recognition and the suffering in devaluation, as well as the replacement of activities along the territory for administrative activities in the unit. Physical and emotional pain have been described by respondents, which realize helpless facing the complexity of issues that require attention in the community. On the basis of the Psychodynamics of Work, concluded on the need of listening spaces demand for enhancing the work of ACS, which meets the ransom to the assumptions of the model itself and of interprofessional action.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; COMMUNITY health workers; EXPERIENTIAL learning; FAMILY health; FAMILY services; FOCUS groups; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; PLEASURE; PRIMARY health care; MATHEMATICAL models of psychology; SUFFERING; WORK; QUALITATIVE research; THEMATIC analysis
- Publication
Ciencia, Cuidado e Saude, 2018, Vol 17, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1677-3861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v17i2.39287