Social representations of nursing students about hospital assistance and primary health care

• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Felismina
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Zangão, Otília, Gemito, Laurência, Serra, Isaura
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/18635; https://doi.org/Mendes FRP, Zangão MOB, Gemito MLGP, Serra ICC. Social Representations of nursing students about hospital assistance and primary health care. Rev Bras Enferm [Internet]. 2016;69(2):321-8. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167.2016690218i; https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167.2016690218i
• topic: Nursing Students; Nursing Education; Hospital Assistance; Primary Health Care; Skills-Based Education

Objective: To analyze how social representations of hospital and community care are structured in two groups of nursing students – 1st and 4th years. Method: Qualitative research oriented by the Theory of Social Representations. We used a questionnaire with Free Association of Words. Data were analyzed in the Software IRaMuTeQ 0.6 alpha 3. Results: We applied the method of Descending Hierarchical Classifi cation and obtained four classes. Class 4 has the largest social representation (30.41%) within the corpus. The two organizational axes are nurse and disease/patient in the central core. On the periphery are the care and help related to the nurse and the treatment and prevention associated with the disease. Conclusion: Social representations focus on disease/patient and on the role of nurses in the treatment, prevention, and care. Health promotion and the social determinants of health are absent from the social representations of students.