Ações interdisciplinares na educação em saúde para o autocuidado e o pé diabético: revisão integrativa

Abstract

The actions of health education for self-care and diabetic foot became a great challenge for the interdisciplinary team due to the absence of trained professionals to offer preventive measures to patients. Demonstrating through adherence the importance of self-care for quality of life. Objective: To identify how the multiprofessional team through health education actions can promote self-care in patients with diabetic foot. Methodology: This is an integrative review, using scientific articles published in full free online access, in the Portuguese, Spanish or English languages, available in the electronic databases of LILACS / BDENF / SciELO / MEDLINE / PubMed in the publication from 2013 to 2018. Results: According to the authors, it was possible to understand the attitude, knowledge and practice of the interdisciplinary team in health education for self-care and diabetic foot, investigating the main educational actions for family members and patients in orientation to make it multiplier of knowledge. Conclusion: In view of the above, the study shows that there are numerous difficulties encountered for the interdisciplinary actions in health education for self care and the diabetic foot among them it is possible to highlight; the resistance of the patients in the adherence to the actions and promotions, economic difficulty, absence of qualified professionals to provide the care, and resistance of the professionals in carrying out the planned actions.