Representações sociais do câncer para o familiar do paciente oncológico em tratamento quimioterápico

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Maria das Graças Gazel de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• 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/1/11211
• topic: Social representations; Cancer; Family; Chemotherapy; Enfermeiros; Câncer - Pacientes; Relações profissional-família; Representações sociais; Câncer; Família; Quimioterapia; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

Considering that the family experiences and sharing with the patient all the feelings, emotions and anxieties surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, this study aimed to describe the dimensions of social representations of cancer for relatives of the client in oncology chemotherapy in an outpatient unit for their treatment, analyze the social representation of cancer produced by relatives of the client in oncology outpatient chemotherapy treatment, and discuss the contributions of the nurse with the client's family in cancer chemotherapy outpatients from the construction representational of cancer among the study subjects. Character and quality, a methodological approach was based on the Theory of Social Representations. The subjects were 30 family members who were accompanying the patients during chemotherapy. Data were collected from the interviews were semi-structured and analyzed through content analysis of Bardin (1979), systematized by Oliveira (2008), with the help of software QRS NVivo 2.0. The analysis of the data emerged six categories that make up the representational field and is expressed through the representational dimensions achieved in the following categories: feelings shared by relatives of oncology and chemotherapy, which shows that, when faced with the disease and its harsh reality, family members are affected by different kinds of feelings, images, metaphors and concepts exist in the family facing the disease, where family members revealed that the cancer is perceived, among other things, like a monster that invades people's lives and it is to take over and dominate it, prejudice and stigma in the experience of cancer, which showed that even today there are Representations and stigmas in society and their cultural constrictions about cancer, and different practices developed in the context of disease and disease process by cancer, which highlighted the different practices within the discourse of the subjects, namely, that of religiosity in the context of cancer, the disease-fighting, the communication-concealment and attitudes of the family to be in the world against the cancer, the process anchor and the knowledge acquired after the cancer experience, and on which the knowledge acquired about the subjects of cancer and some elements of the anchoring process of cancer, the experiences of nurses working in oncology and its contributions to the family that alert nurses the need for effective interventions aimed at comprehensive care of the individual, taking into consideration the importance of family. It follows that to find out if accompanying a family member who has cancer, the family has to live another world, where the possibility of death shown so inevitable and imminent. Given this, the family has to not only appreciate the care the patient but also yearns for a professional care that addresses their existence and their way of living.