Qualquer amor já é um pouquinho de saúde: construindo laços entre os/as Agentes Comunitários de Saúde e os/as Adolescentes nas delicadezas do gênero e da sexualidade

Abstract

Despite the recognition of the importance of the role of Community Health Agents (CHA) as a link between the health team, users and the community, the literature review reveals the difficulties and limits of the interaction of these professionals with adolescents, especially when the themes are related to gender and sexuality. Recent research has shown that gender and sexuality are determinants that act by promoting barriers to access and quality of comprehensive care in the Unified Health System (SUS), especially in the Family Health Strategy (ESF). In the municipality where the main researcher works, the setting for this proposal, we identified a similar situation. Thus, we developed the intervention project with the objective of promoting conversational situations that would allow the CHAs to reflect on their modes of interaction with adolescents, considering their perspective and mediated by new knowledge. Formatted as a virtual dialogic space, the meetings lasted 10 hours distributed in 02 hours a week and 05 weeks. 15 CHAs who work in the municipality were invited to participate in the project. The Nurses coordinators of the ESF teams indicated the participating CHAs as key subjects, since the adolescents did not know the CHAs in their territory. The main findings of the research were: a) the shared belief that teenagers (of today) are more informed and capable of making their own decisions; b) the romanticization of the present mediated by technology that would make the experience of adolescence more peaceful; c) the permanence of the centrality of physiological aspects as outlines for dealing with issues of sexuality; and, finally, d) the recognition of the lack of continuing education that would facilitate the approach of the subject for the CHAs. The reflections offered during the project demonstrate its power as a mediator of changes in the daily life of Basic Health Units (BHU) and, even though, unlike other studies, in the case of the CHA, we identified the desire to know/do. As a product of this work, the article with the report of the experience carried out and the booklet suggesting the possibility of reproducing the experience in other cities are included as appendices.