"Viver é etcétera" : itinerários terapêuticos de sujeitos com diabetes mellitus

Abstract

A qualitative approach study whose goal consists in knowing therapeutic intineraries of mellitus diabetes blokes, based on disease diagnosis disclosure. The Jardim Carapina territory, in Serra City-ES, was the scenario to this study, that had as its blokes seven mellitus diabetes Health Unic System-SUS users. Narratives, photos, observation and field journal were the tools to product analysis material. The fieldwork happened from May to July 2015 and started by recognizing the work process dynamic of the five local Family Health Strategy team. The seven blokes were chosen by the nurses and health community agents indication. After an accurate analysis of any bloke records, their addresses were localized, based on registration lied in Health Center. The visit to the blokes was done by the researcher and the health agents, as a previously defined agenda to certain micro areas. The meetings/narratives, about fortyfive minutes, were promoted individually, according to blokes suggestion about meeting schedule and place. Except a meeting that occurred in a public square from Jardim Carapina, all the others took place in the blokes home. The meetings/narratives were transcribed with the field journal notes based on a great produced analysis material read. This study intended to make sense to each of seven narratives, that were accompanied by their respective itinerary and therapeutic itinerary visual representation. The therapeutic itineraries showed the blokes are mostly little schooling, disadvantaged and elderly people. Based on their path to health care, this study highlighted the limits – fragmentation of care, and others –, and possibilities – family support and religiousness, for example –, of these blokes, addition to production of sense in long-term illness experience.