Racismo e saúde mental: o manejo dos profissionais do setor de saúde do IFPI Teresina Central no atendimento aos estudantes negros e negras

Abstract

Racism and mental health in the context of EPT has proven to be a fruitful topic with several aspects to be explored, and is therefore the focus of this research, which aims to analyze the management of the health team of a federal educational institution to deal with racism and its consequences for the mental health of students served by the sector. For this purpose, a documentary and field research was carried out, with a qualitative and descriptive approach, with 8 participants, all of whom were professionals from the health sector of the IFPI Teresina Central Campus. The research was submitted to and approved by the Research Ethics Committee. Its collection involved the analysis of reports and documents on the actions of the health sector, the application of a semi-structured interview and the evaluation form of the Educational Product. Based on the documentary analysis, it was noted that most of the actions of the health sector focus on multidisciplinary and individual care, which may be related to the internal organization itself. After performing the Content Analysis, it was possible to arrive at 9 final categories, namely: racism as a multifactorial and structural process, implicit demands of racism, lack of actions to combat racism, difficulties in acting in the sector, internal articulation of the sector, external articulation with other sectors and institutions, improvements for the sector, the influence of the pandemic on mental health; and consequences of racism for mental health. The category of new ideas was also added as a way to include non-dominant speeches with great potential for discussion. Thus, the difficulty in identifying and managing racial demands by professionals was noted. In addition, the following were pointed out as consequences of racism: introspective behaviors, emergence or worsening of mental disorders, decreased self-esteem and feelings of exclusion. This research is part of the Professional Master's Program in Professional and Technological Education, located in the teaching concentration area, research line 2 and macroproject 6. The resulting educational product was a booklet in digital format, which has as a by-product a protocol for dealing with racial issues.