Sexualidade da mulher: Dificuldades, enfrentamentos e atuação dos serviços de saúde

Abstract

Introduction: There are difficulties for the approach of women’s sexuality and they refer to professionals, the functioning of services and to women. Objectives: Analyze the difficulties found by women regarding sexuality throughout their lives and how they face them and to analyze the professional performance towards the health needs related to sexuality in primary care services from the perspective of women. Method: It is a qualitative analysis, 24 women attended at the USF and UBS were the participants, the semi-structured interview was the instrument for data collection, which were analyzed by content analysis, thematic modality. Results: This process allowed us to define two themes, namely, the different difficulties related to women's sexuality and the approach of health professionals about women's sexuality. Final Considerations: The qualitative approach made it possible to show the needs of the women and of the services towards the theme.