Imagem corporal no cárcere: percepções e desejos em mulheres privadas de liberdade

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Ana Luísa Canário Carlos de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRN
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/40064
• topic: Cárcere, imagem corporal, saúde da mulher.; Prison, Body Image, Women Health.

INTRODUCTION: Usually, women are more concerned about the Body Image (IC) and, possibly, suffer media influence to have thin and beautiful bodies. However, women deprived of their liberty are exposed to other factors that may influence their body perception. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the perception of body image in the incarcerated women in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. METHODOLOGY: Cross-sectional study developed with 149 inmates. The perception of body image was evaluated from the Escala de Figuras de Silhuetas (Figure Rating Scale) of KAKESHITA. RESULTS: Half of them see themselves as obeses (50,3%) or overweight (26,8%). When it's about the intended body, 83,8% want to be overweight, being significantly stronger on those eutrophic (88,2%), and 40% of obese women want to maintain their body size or even augment it. CONCLUSION: The perception of overweight and obesity is alarming in inmates of the closed system, and most part of them longs to have even more volumous bodyes, pointing to the need of the actions of health and studies be intensified with the inprisoned female population of Rio Grande do Norte.