Keywords
Primary health care
Unified health system
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Abstract
Objective: To verify the knowledge of public health professionals about the family constellation. Methods: The transversal, quantitative and qualitative study was made by electronic questionnaires applied to professionals who work in the public health system in both units that offer or do not offer appointments of Integrative and Complementary Practices in Health (ICPH). The opened answers were analysed by theme as opposed to the closed ones, that were analysed by descriptive statistics. Results: Among the 20 participants, 16 were declared females (80%) and 11 (55%) declared knowing what FC is; 16 (80%) don't know that FC has been offered by SUS since 2018. The participants had "converging" and "diverging" ideas about the FC's concept adopted by the Health Ministry and manifested that FC could contribute in the health field "helping users to deal with their feelings/emotions" and "assisting the users to deal with disease". Conclusion: Although FC is a known and recognized ICP and its use in the public health system is established, the participants of this research presented insufficient knowledge regarding the theme.