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- Title
The impact of the diagnosis of tuberculosis through its social representations.
- Authors
Gonçalves da Gama, Kamila Nancy; Proença Palmeira, Iací; Leal Ataíde Rodrigues, Ivaneide; Rodrigues Ferreira, Angela Maria; dos Santos Ozela, Claudia
- Abstract
Objective: To identify people's way of acting after the diagnosis of tuberculosis, through their social representations about the disease. Method: Qualitative and descriptive study based on the Theory of Social Representations, in which 23 patients of a school health center in Belém, PA, Brazil, participated. The software ALCESTE was used to generate a class concerning the impact of the diagnosis in people's lives. Results: The dimension of a new reality caused by the diagnosis of tuberculosis is linked with the image of dirt, (process of objectification) communicable/mortal disease that exclude, causing sorrow, despair and revolt (dimension of the affections), reverberating in the patients' actions (dimension of action). Final considerations: Patients have a global knowledge about tuberculosis, linking the knowledge of everyday life with the reified universe, pointing the multidimensionality of the phenomenon. The conclusion is that investing in the deconstruction of archaic beliefs about the tuberculosis that kills, replacing it with the curable tuberculosis, is necessary.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; TUBERCULOSIS diagnosis; RESEARCH methodology; SOCIAL psychology; TUBERCULOSIS; QUALITATIVE research; SOCIAL attitudes; HEALTH literacy; ATTITUDES toward illness
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2019, Vol 72, Issue 5, p1189
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0881