ATTENTION ON CONTRACEPTION BY FAMILY HEALTH TEAMS: CONVERGENCE OF EDUCATIONAL AND INVESTIGATIONAL PRACTICES

ABSTRACT Objective: to build health actions in conjunction with Family Health teams to improve contraceptive care. Method: a qualitative research, in the convergent care modality, with theoretical and methodological support from the Paideia Support. Data collection was performed through semi-structured interviews and convergence groups. The research participants belonged to five Health Centers in the city of Florianopolis, Brazil. The empirical material was organized and coded through the webQDA software. Data analysis followed the four generic processes: apprehension, synthesis, theorization and transference. Results: the analysis of the semi-structured interviews allowed the elaboration of proposals to improve contraceptive care and the convergence groups provided opportunities for education and awareness on the theme of contraceptive care. The first strategy used in the convergence groups was the presentation of inserts with the proposed actions to improve contraceptive care, allowing the participants of the groups to validate the actions (or not). The second strategy used Therapeutic Dolls to create scenes that contextualize contraceptive care in the daily services, allowing the recognition of two categories for analysis: the vulnerability profile of the users who demand contraceptive care; and the possibilities for perfecting this attention. Conclusion: the Family Health teams are betting on actions aimed at guaranteeing the access of users, especially adolescents, to sexual and reproductive health services.