Representações sociais da Aids para pessoas que vivem com HIV e suas interfaces cotidianas

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, érika Machado Pinto da
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• 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/1/11229
• topic: Social representation; HIV; Aids; Chronic disease; Representação social; HIV; Aids; Doença crônica; Representações sociais; HIV (Vírus); AIDS (Doença); Doenças crônicas; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM::ENFERMAGEM DE SAUDE PUBLICA

The current study had as its purpose describes the content of the social representations concerning to AIDS for the serum positive users with ambulatorial attendance of the public health system and to analyze the interface of the social representations of AIDS with the daily routine of the individuals who live with HIV, particularly in what concerns to its organization and to its process of adhesion to the treatment. It attends of an exploratory descriptive study, ruled in the qualitative approach and guided by the Theory of the Social Representations. The subjects consisted of 30 users with ambulatorial attendance of a Municipal Public Hospital located in the Rio de Janeiro City referenced for serum positive customers concerning to HIV/AIDS. The data were collected through interview and analyzed through the analysis of great content. As results, emerged 6 categories, as they follow: Elements of memory of the Anchoragement of the Aids in the society and its process of transformation, where it was explicated the anchoragement of Aids in the other one, in Africa, in the monkey, in the homosexual and a new presented anchoragement consists in the chronicity of the diabetes, omitting the syndrome of being synonymous of death; Transmission and Prevention of the Aids according to the people that live together with the syndrome, in which the subjects presented almost all the ways scientifically confirmed according to the ways of the HIV virus transmission; The day by day of the serum-positive individuals permeated by the vulnerability to the HIV virus, at the range in which gets along with the recognition of the individual risk heading to the epidemy will influence, overall, the practices and the people s behaviors; Discrimination and concealing in living with the HIV virus, where its introduces as strategies of social survival the concealing of the serum positive state to the HIV virus. In such case, it can be continued the life as people being considered as normal ones, without being accused and discriminated, whatever in the familiar range, social or at work; moreover, the subjects of the study declared that they were prejudiced before the diagnosis; the process of adhesion to the treatments concerning to the serum positive individuals day by day routine, observing, in this category, that one of the greatest inciters of the adhesion to the treatment consists in the fact of the users make believing in the positive result of the therapeutics; the daily facing experienced by the subjects who live with the HIV virus, where the way they organize their own day by day to face and to live together with the HIV virus reflects directly in their attitudes and also in their practices, such as in the adhesion process, or as in the social relations (the other one) and, essentially, in the individual relation (the ones themselves). It follows that the social representation of the Aids presents itself multifaced and depends on the historical and social context in what the individual is filled in, their values, culture, level of information and knowledge.