Ingration of complementary practices applied to workers of a Basic Health Unit: experience report

Abstract

Introduction: One of the challenges of the Unified Health System (SUS) is to get its workers and SUS managers, in daily practices, to incorporate self-care actions. Objective: To describe the experience of the Care-TE project carried out with workers from the Basic Health Unit (UBS) Dr. Antônio Carlos Costa, Teresina, Piauí. Materials and Methodology: Experience report of the Care-TE project developed in 2018, with 65 workers from UBS and students from the Multiprofessional Residency in Family and Community Health, State University of Piauí. Monthly meetings were held, beginning in August 2018, and complementary integrative practices were discussed and applied, namely: biodance, circular dance, bioenergetics, meditation, yoga, eutonia, music therapy, art and health, manual practices and liangong. Conclusion: This experience mobilized the teams to reflect on strategies for the care of workers through light technologies and integrative and complementary practices that demonstrated positive results for the health and quality of life of the actors involved.