Dantas MDS, Abrão FMDS, de Freitas CMSM, de Oliveira DC. [Social representations of HIV/AIDS among healthcare professionals in benchmark services].
ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015;
35:94-100. [PMID:
25842786 DOI:
10.1590/1983-1447.2014.04.45860]
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Abstract
This study was based on exploratory research and a qualitative approach within the framework of the Social Representations Theory. It aims to capture the social representations of healthcare providers in relation to HIV/AIDS by describing their structure.The Free Evocations technique was applied on 86 professionals of HIV/AIDS benchmark services in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, from 2011 to 2013. Analysis using EVOC 2005 software showed that the possible central core is prejudice in a negative attitude dimension; in the contrast zone, chronic disease translates living with the disease. In the first periphery, treatment and disease in a clinical/biometric conception; in the second periphery, death has a imagistic and negative nature. Positive and negative elements were observed, allowing healthcare personnel to construct meaning attributed to the phenomenon and reflect on their practices.
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