Social representations of wheelchair users

• Autor(a) principal: Chesani, Fabiola Hermes
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Negretti, Pyetra Prestes, Grosskopf, Carla Santos, Bossardi, Carina Nunes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Pesquisa (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unicesumar.edu.br/index.php/saudpesq/article/view/7966
• topic: Comprehensive health care; Social inclusion; Social representations; Self-help devices; Assistive Technology; Social Representations; Comprehensive Health Care; Social inclusion.; Atenção integral à saúde; Inclusão social; Representações sociais; Tecnologia assistiva; Tecnologia Assistiva; Representações Sociais; Atenção Integral à Saúde; Inclusão Social.

The use of a wheelchair can come loaded with peculiar meanings that pass around the world or who use assistive technology. This study aimed to know how social representations of people with physical disabilities about the use of a wheelchair. A survey was conducted with a qualitative approach through semi-structured interviews with 10 people with physical disabilities who used assisted technology and who frequently practiced a Physiotherapy clinic and a Specialized Rehabilitation Center. From the analysis of the emerging results or the thematic block Social representations of the use of the wheelchair and as categories: a dependence on the chair and functional independence and social exclusion when using the chair. The ways of seeing the use of assistive technologies such as the wheelchair are surrounded by concepts and relationships that demarcate the importance of comprehensive health care with a view to social inclusion.