Trajetória de sujeitos com transtornos mentais na Rede de Atenção Psicossocial no Centro Histórico de Salvador, Bahia: acessibilidade?

Abstract

The research is an analysis from the perspective of the individuals with mental illness, their experiences by trajectories of access to Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS). The reference is the new model on Mental Health established by the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform. The problem is guided as follows: How does the subject with mental disorder experiences his/her trajectory to access the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS)? Thus, the study aims to understand how the subject with mental disorders access the services of RAPS; how to offer access and whether there are barriers put in their way that impede or even slow this trajectory for care seeking. It is a study of qualitative, descriptive and exploratory approach, from a combination of methodological strategies, using documentary research through consultations to CAPS user records files, direct observation to some paths through ethnographic research and trajectories and semi-structured interviews reports. The results show that participants have difficulties in accessing the network care, especially for not having a well-formed service network and CAPS has not been able to make a network joint, assuming hegemonically the care of mental health, which has not favored the complexity of answers to the needs and strengthening of active citizenship exercises of individuals with mental illness in the search for legal rights achieved.