A tenda do conto na atenção primária à saúde: um espaço possível para o cuidado integral à saúde masculina?

Abstract

The alleged male invulnerability has become a factor of vulnerability to illness, added to the fact of the invisibility of their demands by the health services, regarding the organization of services and beliefs regarding masculinity signify synonymous with non-care. In this context, we have the need to create and intensify strategies in basic care that contemplate men in a unique way. In view of this scenario, we conducted a qualitative research of an interventional character in order to understand if the Tale Tent inventive practice can be configured as a space of humanized and integral care for the health of men who use the Family Health Strategy. The study was carried out with nine men in a Family Health Unit, in the city of Cuité-PB. As a methodological strategy, we used the interview, and the men's participation in the Tale Tent, mediated by the researcher; and the researcher's field diary and her assistant. The Tale Tent is an open space, through meetings where users and health professionals share wisdom and life experiences, stimulating co-responsibility in the search for solutions and overcoming challenges, constituting a strategy of optimization in the reception and establishment Based on the principle of humanization. For the analysis and interpretation of the narratives, we turn to the Gadamerian Hermeneutics. From the dialogue with the narratives of the men in the tents and interviews, we obtained some thematic axes: 1) To be man is to give account of everything! In this axis, we find the centrality of work in the construction of masculinities, and the responsibility towards everything and character having the force of being man; 2) Conceptions about health: living well and feeling nothing. They started from the absence of illness, going to well-being, with emphasis in the course of the tents for the presence of music, leisure, and coexistence among them allies in their health. 3) Conceptions about good service: the search for resolution and access arise alongside the reception and quality of communication. 4) Health demands and the tent: revealing needs. Of the demands, we observe hypertension, gastritis, prostate problems, physical pain and anxiety. They highlight their needs for resorting to health services and (re-) know the need to give visibility and care to their emotional issues. 5) The Tale Tent and the recognition of the other by the word. In this axis, from the initial shyness to (re) knowledge and the joy of being able to speak, evidence the gains obtained with the Tent for the expression of its singularities and subjectivities. Through the account of these men, their stories of joys and pains, we verified how much it was possible to take care of the masculine health besides the illness and the instrumental care. By enhancing and welcoming the dimensions of masculine subjectivity, protagonism in health, and promoting a dialogical encounter, the Tent of Tale has exercised a place of humanized and integral care for these men within the scope of the ESF and can continue to inspire more practices that Favor the reception of existential pains and the reunion with the power of encounters, because these needs are too human.