Body rediscoveries and middle-age resiliency: a study with women in conviability with chronic disease

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Luzia Wilma Santana da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Botelho, Zilanda Souza, Barros, Fernanda Luz, Rodrigues, Larissa Silva de Abreu
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de educação popular (Online)
• DOI: 10.14393/REP-2021-59711
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/reveducpop/article/view/59711
• topic: Cuidados de saúde; Empoderamento; Mulher; Pessoa de meia-idade; Women; Empowerment; Delivery of health care; Middle aged

Study from an umbrella project with a multi-center action, from Interdisciplinary Nucleus of Studies and Research on Family Health Care Conviability with Chronic Diseases (Niefam). This research had resilience and reproductive aging as theoretical frameworks. The objectives of this study were to make an educative-caring intervention on the empowerment of women in the climacteric/menopause phase and in the chronic disease confrontation process, Systemic Arterial Hypertension, HAS, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, DM2, and to evaluate intervention in the HAS, DM2 markers, and  the feeling of living the old age phase effects, with a mixed and interventionist method, performed in Bahia, during August/2019 and July/2020, with 17 women, participants of Niefam. In order to collect the data, one-to-one and group semi-structured interviews were performed; educational workshops and conversation circles. The quantitative data was subjected to descriptive statistical analysis, and a qualitative one to content analysis. The results showed they are women with high self-esteem, conscious of the health-disease process, namely, the non-transmittable chronic diseases that affect them, such as HAS in 100% of the participants as well as grade II and III obesity, and DM2. In conclusion, middle-age women can (re)elaborate their experience with their bodies and their health when empowered to their resilient potential.