As representações sociais do cuidar para os famíliares de usuários atendidos pelas clínicas escola da Universidade Católica Dom Bosco

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The process of patients rehabilitation in treatment at health centres needs the familys involvement as collaborator agent. In order to implement this involvement at the health services, it is necessary to know the family relation at the therapeutic process. The objective of this research was to analyse the social representations about the care from the relatives of the users who are attended by the school-clinics at the Dom Bosco Catholic University, Campo Grande Mato Grosso do Sul. The research was done between the months April and July, 2006, with 32 companions relatives from both sexes and the participation was voluntary. Structured interviews were done with questions about the socio-demographic profile of the participants, characteristics of the person who cares and of the users, family relation, health situation of the user. The interviewer also contemplated questions about the care and the occurred changes at the family after the relatives illness. It was verified at the research that the majority of the family participants were from the feminine sex (n=28) with scholarly instruction at the completed high school level and with a family income of two or three minimal salaries, aged between thirty and forty-nine. The majority of the users were from the masculine sex (n=22), aged between one and ten. The analysis of the answers was supported by the social representation theory. By analysing the contents of the participants reports, three representations about the care emmerged: the responsibility, to do the necessary activities to the ill family member and the act of love. During the interviews, the relatives reported that the care affects all the family context, financial, leisure, health and social relationship. By the reports, we could infer that the work of the person who cares is based on the otheres necessity, that the attention from the one who cares is not turned to himself but to the ill family member. This situation, in the medium and long term, can contribute to the consuming of the person and of the support social net. We hope with this study to contribute to the elaboration of the actions and the public politics which strengthen the service structures at the users communities and their families who live problems with chronic diseases.

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psicologia cuidar saúde aspectos psicológicos; doenças aspectos sociais; psicologia social; psicologia da saúde dissertação social representation representação social care família family

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