MENTAL HEALTH MATRIX SUPPORT IN ROCINHA

Introduction and Objective: Care services in Mental Health (MH) are a global problem. The Primary Health Care (PHC) has an important role for this solution. In the city of Rio de Janeiro the prevalence of people with mental disorders attended at the PHC is of 51.9% (Gonçalves et al, 2014). The National Mental Health Policy has as one of its guidelines the implementation of a diversified network of community based mental health services, capable of attending with resolution the patients that need care. In Brazil, the adopted model of collaborative care is the Matrix Support (Campos, 1999) developed by the Matrix Support Team (MST). Rocinha has three Family Health Units with 100% coverage of PHC and MST. Method: The definition of the term “Matrix Support” is “an activity of interdisciplinary collaborative care where a specialized professional makes joint consultations or case discussions with the reference team in order to determine a therapeutic plan” (FORTES; BALLESTER, 2012, p. 266). MST does the mental health matrix support with the PHC through joint consultations, case discussions and home visits, besides organizing the users flow at the mental health care network and the intersectoral partnerships with the community resources. Results and Conclusions: The mental health care integration at the PHC allows a greater number of people an easier and faster access to it with a service of better quality.