AURICULOTERAPIA NO TRATAMENTO DA OBESIDADE NA ATENÇÃO BÁSICA

Doi.org/10.29327/211653.5.3-2

Abstract

This study aimed to expand the care of people with obesity who participated in the collective care of the Matrix Team of Extended Family Health in Primary Care (NASF-AB), with the insertion of Integrative and Complementary Practices in SUS (PICs), using the practice of auriculotherapy as a therapeutic possibility in the Family Health Strategy (FHS), this practice was applied to thirty users of the service of a basic health unit diagnosed with obesity, who participated in five consecutive meetings, with quantitative and qualitative approach, using reflex points for weight reduction and anxiety, and as a result was a reduction in the degree of obesity and appetite intensity in the participants.