Social representations of health professionals about HIV/AIDS: a comparison between men and women

• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Yndira Yta
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Denize Cristina de, Pereira, Eliane Ramos, Pontes , Ana Paula Munhen de, Gomes , Antônio Marcos Tosoli, Marques , Sergio Corrêa, Antunes, Rômulo Frutuoso
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Pesquisa (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unicesumar.edu.br/index.php/saudpesq/article/view/8254
• topic: Aids; Gender Identity; HIV; Health professional; Aids; HIV; Identidade de gênero; Profissional de saúde; hiv/aids; representações sociais; gênero

The study aimed to analyze social representations of HIV/Aids from a gender perspective. This was a descriptive study, based on the Theory of Social Representations, using a structural approach. It was developed with 214 health professionals who worked in reference services in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói. Questionnaires were applied for characterization of the participants and for collection of free evocations of the inductive term “HIV / Aids”. Data were analyzed with the aid of SPSS software for statistical characterization of the group and EVOC 2005 for prototypical analysis of social representations. The results point to divergences in the representations of HIV/Aids between the sexes; greater general positivity, with elements from the reified universe and meanings related to coping with the disease in males; and a more negative trend, accompanied by elements of permanence of the original representations of HIV/Aids, with affective elements in the representation of the female group. It is concluded that it is not possible to affirm the existence of distinct representations between the sexes, but some representational content marked by a general gender orientation.