Social representations of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus among HIV-positive adults

• Autor(a) principal: Angelim, Rebeca Coelho de Moura
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Marques, Sérgio Corrêa, Oliveira, Denize Cristina de, Oliveira, Regina Celia de, Freire, Daniela de Aquino, Abrão, Fátima Maria da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/reufsm/article/view/68006
• topic: Percepção social; HIV; Síndrome de imunodeficiência adquirida; Adulto; Enfermagem; Percepção social; HIV; Síndrome de imunodeficiência adquirida; Adulto; Enfermagem; Percepción Social; VIH; Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida; Adulto; Enfermería; Social Perception; HIV; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Adult; Nursing

Objective: to identify the social representations of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among HIV-positive adults. Method: exploratory-descriptive field research, with a qualitative approach, based on the Theory of Social Representations, carried out from 2017 to 2018, in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, applied 129 questionnaires of free evocations with adults living with HIV and 30 semi-structured interviews. Prototypical and lexical analysis was used. Results: Results: we observed representational contents linked to the beginning of the epidemic, such as prejudice and death, reflecting on their historical basis, as well as contents related to a perspective of normality of the disease. Conclusion: it was demonstrated the existence of a process of change in the representations, initially linked to death, but later, a view of normality, probably as a consequence of living with the disease, through the new context that allows greater survival.