POTÊNCIAS-LIMITES NA REABILITAÇÃO DE PESSOAS COM SEQUELA PÓS-COVID-19 NO QUOTIDIANO DA ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA À SAÚDE

Abstract

Primary Health Care played an essential role in the management of care in the fight against COVID-19 in Brazil, mainly for the rehabilitation of people with persistent symptoms of the disease. Thus, the objective was to understand the strengths and limits in the rehabilitation of people with post-COVID-19 sequelae in the daily lives of Primary Health Care professionals, based on an interpretative study of a qualitative nature, based on Comprehensive and Daily Sociology, involving 11 health professionals. The sources of evidence were remote individual interviews, carried out in March 2022, guided by a semi-structured script, from which three categories and subcategories emerged: The pandemic everyday life in Primary Health Care: know-how, know-how and know-how; Powers in the rehabilitation of people with post-COVID-19 sequelae in Primary Health Care: longitudinality: bond that rehabilitates; multidisciplinary and community support; work instruments that favor professional engagement and organic solidarity and; Limits in the rehabilitation of people with post-COVID-19 sequelae in Primary Health Care: lack of a care flow; structural difficulties, human resources and support for rehabilitation in Primary Health Care. The pandemic context caused significant changes in the daily life of Primary Health Care, allowing professionals to develop new skills such as the rehabilitation of people with post-COVID-19 sequelae, highlighting the existing powers such as longitudinality and multidisciplinarity. The limits are expressed in work management, transiting between the lack of physical structure, deficits in financial support, generating overload for professionals, as well as the limiting factors due to the disease itself.