Social representations of students on HIV / Aids: integrative review

• Autor(a) principal: Bessa, Marcelino Maia
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Freitas, Rodrigo Jácob Moreira de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Enfermagem Atual In Derme
• Texto Completo: https://revistaenfermagematual.com/index.php/revista/article/view/937
• topic: Representações Sociais; Estudantes; HIV; Enfermagem.; Social Representations; Students; HIV; Nursing.

This study aimed to analyze the scientific production about students' social representations about HIV / AIDS. This is an integrative literature review carried out in the LILASC, BDENF, SciELO, Google scholar and Index Psi Technical-Scientific Journals databases, guided by the question: what are the social representations of students about HIV / AIDS? Six articles were used between the years 2002 and 2017. These revealed that social representations refer to a problem of society that plagues the world. These represent since their identification as disease and death, as well as the prejudice that people living with HIV / AIDS suffer, which can be associated with the lack of information on the part of those who practice it. It was possible to identify a possible change in the social representation of AIDS regarding its relation to homosexuality. Strengthening of discussions on HIV / AIDS. It is also necessary that the knowledge and discussions produced are appropriated by institutions and professionals, mainly in preventing the spread of the virus and disease, as well as through information, to demystify this theme.