Ações de vigilância em saúde mental relacionadas ao trabalho : dificuldades e desafios encontrados pelos profissionais na rede de atenção em saúde de Manaus - Am

Abstract

Work-Related Mental Health Surveillance Actions: Difficulties and Challenges Encountered by Professionals in the Health Care Network of Manaus-AM. 2023. Completion of course work (Bachelor of Nursing) - Higher School of Health Sciences, State University of Amazonas, Manaus, 2023. Occupational Health Surveillance is responsible for an articulated set of actions to promote health and reduce morbidity and mortality of the working population. The theme of workers' Mental Health is currently one of the crucial demands regarding workers' health, since the technical and social characteristics of the management and organization of current jobs induce a series of physical, psychological and social suffering. This study aimed to analyze the main challenges and difficulties in the development of work-related mental health surveillance actions in the city of Manaus-AM from the perspective of professionals working in the mental health care network. This is a research with a qualitative approach, exploratory and descriptive. Developed in the second half of 2022 and first half of 2023 with field collection carried out in units of the State Health Secretariat and Municipal Health Secretariat. The research participants were health professionals who were previously trained in mental health surveillance actions. Data collection took place through a semi-structured interview script containing eight questions that direct the understanding of the research object. Data were collected from the narrative of professionals who participated in pedagogical workshops, about the identification and notification of Work-Related Mental Disorder. All interviews were recorded and transcribed in full, subsequently analyzed using Bardin's thematic analysis, defined in the following analytical categories: understanding of the work component as a condition for the health-disease process and challenges and difficulties in carrying out related mental health surveillance actions to the worker. Regarding understanding: it was highlighted that the main difficulties and challenges encountered by professionals in the network are the routine and dynamics of work, together with the flow of insufficient and sometimes non-existent TRMT notifications in the institutions of the health network