Meanings of Obesity from the Perspectives of Users of Primary Health Care in Nothern Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Andreza Domingos da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Marta Azevedo dos Santos, Sônia Lopes Pinto, Kellen Cristine Silva, Juliana Bastoni da Silva, Lígia Amparo da Silva Santos, Bianca Dias Ferreira, Lorenna Martins da Silva, Walter Soares Borges Neto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.18.2023.e946
• topic: Obesidade; Significados; Estigma Social; Preconceito do Peso; Obesity; Meanings; Social Stigma; Weight Prejudice

Introduction: Obesity is a public health priority that is difficult to reverse, related to a complex network of several factors, making it impossible to measure the strength of each one for weight gain and impact on the life of the person with obesity. Objectives: to understand the meanings of obesity from the perspective of the person with obesity. Methods: descriptive, exploratory study, with an interpretive epistemological position, with a qualitative approach. The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ) instrument was used to guide the method. Eight people with obesity participated, through individual interviews, subsidized by a semi-structured script, in a virtual environment, synchronous by videoconference, recorded, transcribed and left by Content Analysis. Results: Six categories were determined: (I) Understanding about health; (II) Knowledge about health promotion; (III) Perception of ways of life; (IV) Understanding of obesity; (V) Coping with obesity; and (VI) Feelings related to obesity. It was concluded that it was possible to know the aspects related to living as a person with obesity, represented by negative, physical and psychological meanings, related to body image dissatisfaction, converging in the production of feelings of sadness and a cycle of suffering due to the social stigma and heavy prejudice.