Mindfulness based interventions at Primary Health Care

Abstract

The work’s theme and object of study are mindfulness-based interventions carried out in a health group promoted by professionals from the Family Health Strategy, with users linked to the Basic Health Unit of an administrative region of the Federal District and aims to reflect how interventions with the mindfulness technique can integrate health promotion in the context of Primary Health Care. Method: this is applied and qualitative research, in which an experience report was carried out on Interventions based on mindfulness in collective activity with users, with reflections and perceptions recorded through the researcher’s field diary, in four meetings, lasting one hour, once a week, in a room at the health unit, between November and December 2022. The analysis of the material was carried out through thematic analysis, based on the five facets of mindfulness, which refer to the skills of: Observing; To Describe; Act with Consciousness; Non-Judgment of Internal Experience; Non Reactivity to Internal Experience. Results: mindfulness skills were gradually developed by practitioners throughout the meetings in the health group, with the support of professionals, although some challenges were noted in the practices carried out and in the implementation of the action at the UBS. Conclusion: the potential of mindfulness-based Interventions in the development of skills was realized, being considered an action that promotes health for the community and its territory.