Estigma social: um estudo sobre portadores de Hanseníase do Município de Cajazeiras-PB

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Pollianna Marys de Souza e
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/7255
• topic: Hanseníase; Estigma Social; Preconceito/Discriminação; Leprosy; Social Stigma; Prejudice/Discrimination; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

Before the Discovery of Poliquimioterapy PQT the treatment used to combat leprosy was the model isolationist. For a long time families were separated and people removed from its social coexistence, or placed in leprosy colonies far from the cities. This model of treatment helped the development of the social stigma related to the disease of prejudice and discrimination by the society to the carriers and their families. The aim of this work is to investigate the social stigma from the point of view of bearers of the city of leprosy Cajazeiras PB. The search feature has developed empirical, exploratory and quantitative-qualitative held in two stages (participatory observation and application of questionnaires). The research subjects were 25 carriers registed in the Program Hall of Control and Elimination of Leprosy Cajazeiras PB. These people were patients of the Family Health Program FHP, the clinical School of the Faculty Santa Maria FSM and Polyclinic Hall, of both genders and with a confirmed diagnosis of leprosy. Of these 25 patients, 12 were male and 13 female, in relation to age was not relevant prevalence of the disease in any particular age group; as to the profession/occupation have interviewed all professions/occupations whose income is less than or equal to a minimum wage (farmer and domestic), according to the location of housing, 21 live in the urban area and only 04 live in the rural area; in relation to the time of appearance of the first signs and diagnosis of leprosy, the average time was most common among 01 to 06 months, but only 05 interviewed has a diagnosis of leprosy after 02 years of the appearance of the first sign of the disease and 16 were interviewed the only clinical diagnosis, while 09 of them had to submit to smear; as to the time of treatment that patients are searched using the PQT, it was observed that 03 were interviewed by high cure; agree with the view of them with regard to the treatment PQT, only 05 said finding the bad treatment or reasonable, while 20 o considered good or great, despite some deploy the adverse reactions; about the disease, 05 only the family, 15 that family and friends and 05 knew about suffered any attitude of prejudice and/or discrimination, 06 individuals said that yes. The small number of cases, although it is unacceptable, shows that there were advances with regard to the understanding of the disease, its social representation and attitude of the people who come into direct contact with their carriers. Although the cases of the city of Cajazeiras not allow us to say that the decline in cases of prejudice and discrimination is a trend throughout country, we can at least consider that, especially in that city, the incidence of the phenomenon is much lower than people commonly imagine when we think about the disease and social mistreatment suffered by the patients.