Abstract

BOCK, Lisnéia Fabiani; BAGGIO, Maria Aparecida; SANTOS, Sílvia Azevedo dos  and  MEIRELLES, Betina H. Schlindwein. Mental health in primary care: how to set up knowledge production in Brazil. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2011, vol.serIII, n.5, pp.173-180. ISSN 0874-0283.  https://doi.org/10.12707/RIII1110.

This study seeks, through integrative review of the literature, to identify Brazillian scientific production in the area of mental health in primary care, using Latin-American databases. The bibliographical research covered national publications from 2001 to 2008 carried out by searching the VHL (Virtual Library of Health), and the LILACS (Latin America and Carribean Health Sciences) and BDENF (Bibliographic Database Specialist in Nursing in Brazil) databases; the main databases for general health sciences and nursing in Brazil. The sample was composed of 42 articles, submitted to descriptive analysis. The result shows the South-east region as having the higher level of production in contrast with the North region, which did not have any published study in the bases investigated. Health journals in general and public health journals in particular publish higher numbers of studies of mental health in primary care, followed by specialist magazines. Forty-eight percent of the studies were original research, presenting the results of theses and dissertations. We reflect on the need for articles to present, in a more explicit and detailed way, the design of the research, mainly the description of objectives and methodological stages.

Keywords : mental health; public health; primary health care; nursing.

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