Entre sombras e representações: a construção da identidade psicossocial dos adolescentes que vivem com HIV/aids

• Autor(a) principal: Spezani, Renê dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11135
• topic: Teenager; Ego; HIV; Interpersonal relations; Acquired human immunodeficiency syndrome; Adolescente; Ego; HIV; Relações interpessoais; Síndrome de imunodeficiência adquirida; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

The objective of this study was the psychosocial identity construction of adolescents living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and/or human acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids). This investigation objective is a phenomenon of social representation, since it is produced and shared among HIV-positive adolescents from interactions processed between them and other individuals interacting in the society. In this sense, the objectives guiding this research were: to analyze the psychosocial identity construction of adolescents living with HIV/aids and the social representations that the group has about themselves, to analyse how these representations that adolescents living with HIV/aids develop about themselves, to analyze how the representations interfere with the construction of psychosocial identity, to identify the specific identity of the adolescent related to HIV condition, to discuss the psychosocial identity demands that adolescents living with HIV/aids provides for nursing and health care. This is qualitative research, referenced based on the procedural perspective of the Theory of Social Representations, and the Theory of Social Identity and Ego-ecological Theory. The research was authorized by the Ethics Committee in Research through CAAE number 13650213.9.0000.5259. The study was developed in a referral hospital for the treatment of HIV/aids, located in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Study participants were 42 adolescents positive to HIV, 15 to 22 years old, assisted at the clinic of the health institution. The data were collected from an instrument contextualization of the subjects and a script consisting of an open question and an adaptation of the Multiphase Inventory of Social Identity. The data presentation and discussion were based according to the methodological propositions of Ego- ecological Theory and to the thematic content analysis. The results showed that the identity construction of adolescents with HIV is mediated by social representations made about themselves and about other individuals, from a dialogic psycho-contextual process, characterized by positive and negative features that reflect both in their health and in the way of being and to position in the world. This process occurred in experiences of adversity context, which the social stigma, generally attributed to people living HIV/aids, has a dark influence about the representations that adolescents build about themselves, when comparing to other social groups they interact in their everyday relationships. It is concluded that both the socially constructed identity as the impacts caused by HIV must be valued by governmental authorities and by professionals who perform services in several health care areas. This valorization is necessary as it shows a possibility of establishing routes that can give the necessary protection and efficaciousness to health demands identified in HIV adolescents, as well as to their family members or caregivers.