Representações Sociais de Profissionais de Saúde sobre HIV/Aids: uma comparação entre homens e mulheres

• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Yndira Yta
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11408
• topic: Social representations; HIV/aids; Healthcare professionals; Representações sociais; HIV/aids; Profissionais de saúde; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

This study aims to compare the social representations contents and structures of of HIV/aids between male and female healthcare professionals, working in health units located in Rio de Janeiro state. This is an exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative approach, supported by the social representations theory, from structural approach. The study included 214 health professionals, who worked in specialized care service (SAE) and center for testing and counseling (CTA) units, integrates STD, Aids and Viral Hepatitis departments in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi. It was applied questionnaires for participant characterization and another to collect free evocation of the inductive term "HIV/aids". Data were analyzed by SPSS and EVOC 2005 software with the construction of the four-frame houses. In the overall group analysis were defined in the possible core of representation, the elements prejudice, fear, prevention and care. The terms prejudice and fear indicate negative meanings maintenance as permanence elements and health professional memories about HIV/aids since the original representation of the virus and the syndrome. In contrast, the elements care and prevention characterize the value attributed by professional to the preventive practices needed to face the disease and the virus, as well as reflect the care practices involved in the 1st periphery by the evocations treatment, follow-on treatment and medicine. The 2nd periphery consists of positive cognitions as hope, rebirth, help, condoms and health, and neutral elements like sexuality and exams. In the contrast zone, negative elements anchored in the memory like death, suffering, disease and sadness reinforce the centrality of prejudgment. Regarding the gender comparison, there is the male possible core, the facing of the disease understood from the diagnostic, prevention and care strategies. In females the terms fear and death reaffirm the original representation and the emergence of the disease, noting that the word death is present only in the core of this group. We highlight the main differences in the two groups, which in women there is evidence of the beginnings of aids and memories, and the male group perceives an anchorage on scientific knowledge associated with the current disease. We conclude that there are differences in social representations between the genders, showed the process of change in the social representation of HIV/aids, with the displacement of the term death of centrality and the inclusion of chronicity in the same representation. These results make it possible for health professionals and nurses understanding the meanings attributed to HIV/aids and care practices.