Qualitative study with four symptoms of anxiety in women and men

• Autor(a) principal: Pimentel, Adelma
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Correa, Carolina da Natividade Rodrigues, Silva, Alessandro Carneiro da, Silva, Felipe Mendes da, Monteiro, Thiago Daniel Paixão, Araújo, Joao Victor Soares de, Rodrigues, Leandro A do A D
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/26550
• topic: Anxiety; Qualitative research; Women; Men; Epistemology.; Ansiedad; Investigación cualitativa; Mujeres; Hombres; Epistemología.; Ansiedade; Pesquisa qualitativa; Mulheres; Homens; Epistemologia.

Exploratory qualitative research report, presenting the results of the application of a questionnaire to identify, in the experience of women and men between 20 and 54 years old, 4 symptoms associated with adaptive, social and panic anxiety: fatigue; difficulty concentrating; fear and intrusive/catastrophic thoughts for further treatment. The questionnaire was answered by 21 women and 8 men, living in a capital city in the North Region. Open and closed questions focused on the onset of anxiety; social situations and anxious people; relationship with food; physical activity; psychiatric treatment, self-support, customary personal strategies for coping with anxiety. The profile of the participants includes complete and incomplete higher education. In the analyses, we organized 4 sections: identification; general health: presence/absence of skin and/or respiratory allergies; hypertension and cholesterol; food; characterization of anxiety. We conclude that anxiety is one of the sources of psychological suffering that affects men and women, with the social factor in the experiences of some having a highlighted severity, disconnected from the context of what they do at university and at work; stressful situations, have different weights and feelings, which demonstrates the potency of the context in the impacts on health. Some men reported non-drug coping strategies for anxiety symptoms; none do psychotherapy, which reiterates the importance of interdisciplinary programs, including phytotherapy so that the treatment of anxiety is not only psychiatric.