Social representations among pregnant women living with HIV seropositivity: the collective subject's discourse

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Floriacy Stabnow
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Souza, Adna Nascimento, Silva, Janainna Ferreira e, Silva, Milena Soares da, Fontoura, Iolanda Graepp, Silva, Pedro Mário Lemos da, Ferreira, Adriana Gomes Nogueira, Neto, Marcelino Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Enfermagem Atual In Derme
• Texto Completo: https://revistaenfermagematual.com/index.php/revista/article/view/1202
• topic: Gestantes; Soropositividade para HIV; Saúde da Mulher; Transmissão vertical; Cuidado de Enfermagem.; Pregnant Women; HIV Seropositivity; Women's Health; Infectious Disease Transmission Vertical; Nursing care.

Objective: to know the social representations of pregnancy among pregnant women living with HIV positive. Methods: qualitative study, based on the Theory of Social Representations. Data were collected between March and May 2018 through a semi-structured interview initiated with the research's guide question: "Tell me how you feel about your pregnancy?" We included women with HIV seropositivity known before the current pregnancy, attended in a reference maternity hospital in the northeast of Brazil aged over 18 years. For the analysis, the collective subject discourse was used. Results: We interviewed 12 pregnant women aged 20 to 45 years and the following themes emerged from the discourses: Discovery of seropositivity; Reasons for the current pregnancy; Perception regarding the possibility of vertical transmission; Feelings about the future of babies and Factors that facilitate therapeutic adherence. Final considerations: It became evident that pregnant women experience disappointment and shock in receiving the diagnosis among other negative feelings, manifesting themselves not only when discovering HIV-positive, but in several areas of life. The pregnant women expressed good expectations about the future of their children and knew the benefits of therapeutic adherence.