THE IMPORTANCE OF USING FAMILY APPROACHING INSTRUMENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF SELF-CARE FOR THE HEALTH EDUCATION

Introduction and objectives: Health promotion has extreme importance in what concerns to individual and community capacitation and conscientization in health, major interest of Family Medicine. This way, family approaching is indispensable to recognize the reality in which people are inserted and to guide a plan based on Health Education. In this area, this work has the purpose to understand the relation of the family dynamics and the promotion of self-care, by means of family visits. Method: Longitudinal, qualitative-descriptive study, based on individual case and home visiting experience report,realized in Comunidade do Dendê, Ceará, Brazil, from april to september of 2015. Data were collected by questionnaires about family approaching and self-care methodology, which comprises: evaluation, counseling, agreement, assistance and support, during three interviews with index patient. Confidentiality was assured. There was free and informed consent. Results and conclusion: It was observed by the family history and by the application of instruments such as APGAR, Genogram and Ecomap that B.P.A’s family fits in a context of high functionality, is inserted in the stage of the Family Life Cycle with children, has a good relationship with their community, but also needs support from CHW. This way, the study allowed to better know the family and to notice the persistence of good habits. However, the intervention purpose wasn’t realized. This impossibility, linked to B.P.A.’s disinterest, may be related with his lack of empowerment as to dynamics of Basic Attention.