Role of the mental health physiotherapist in a rural context: perspective from the Latin American social determination

Abstract

Today physiotherapy recognizes the importance of social determination in health in relation to biology, establishing that macro social processes have a conditioning effect on health and disease patterns in the micro. And in relation to mental health, it identifies that action must be directed towards the transformation of reality and the emancipation of the power relations in force over the body and movement. For this reason, the main objective of this work proposal is to establish the role of the physiotherapist in mental health in a rural context from a logic of co-construction, framed from the proposal of Latin American social determination. This research is ruled by the principles of grounded theory as a qualitative research methodology. In this sense, the area of Sumapaz, located in Bogotá, is chosen as the target population, where interviews and focus groups will be conducted with the inhabitants and mental health professionals of the local work team, in addition to teaching experts linked to the subject. As well, the analysis of the information will follow the principles of grounded theory (constant comparison method and theoretical sampling), it is expected that the results will problematize the concept of mental health, making its analysis more complex through the different relationships of illness, care, health, promotion, and prevention that cross it, seeking to understand the way in which these concepts are collectively constructed, as well as the ways in which their possibilities of transformation and emancipation occur.