Benefícios do projeto de extensão Viva Bem Caminhoneiro para motoristas

Abstract

The objective of this study is to demonstrate the importance of the Viva Bem Trucker extension project, as well as to verify the challenges of its implementation and performance and to evaluate the profile of the truckers served by the project. This is a study of the type of experience report about the ten-year experience of the Viva Bem Caminhoneiro extension project linked to the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Araguaia University Campus. It was noted that the project was created to meet the demands arising from the gaps of scarce health care available to this population, although it presents challenges such as the annual exchange of members, due to their academic commitments or graduation. Regarding the profile of drivers, it is noteworthy that most had age range from 30 to 40 years, married, with incomplete elementary school and income over 5 salaries. It was also found that these professionals considered the profession of truck drivers stressful, having a daily workday of more than 12 hours, resting at gas stations, inside their own truck. Given the above, it is considered that taking care of truck drivers requires (re) thinking about nursing performance, as well as creating strategies on how to deal with traveling professionals, cross boundaries and go beyond hospitals and health centers.