The Structure Of Social Representations Of The Recovery Of Health Service Users Who Abuse Psychoactive Substances. A Estrutura Das Representações Sociais Do Recovery De Usuários Do Serviço De Saúde Que Fazem Uso Abusivo De Substâncias Psicoativas.

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the structure of the social representations of the Family Health Teams about the recovery of service users who abuse psychoactive substances. For its realization, we opted for a basic, field, exploratory, descriptive, transversal study with a quantitative and qualitative approach, whose theoretical framework was the Theory of Social Representations. The study scenario was a municipality in the north of Minas Gerais. The participants were 101 professionals from 10 Family Health Strategies. Data collection was performed using a questionnaire with closed questions and word recall test. The evocation data were analyzed by means of a table of four houses with the aid of the Software Ensembles de Programs Permettant l'Analyse des Evocations 2005 (EVOC®). It is observed that in the structure of social representation formulated by the professionals studied both in the central nucleus and in the peripheries, it is identified that the process of forming social representations on the Recovery of health service users who abuse psychoactive substances occurs from of professionals' daily contacts with these users in health services. The elements that characterize these representations come from the changes in mental health policies that are now part of the routine of UBS (s). This can be apprehended, because the SR structure on Recovery is based on factors that according to scientific literature are facilitators for the achievement of Recovery, such as issues related to affectivity, family support, social life and professional support.