Social Representations of women front to the hospital admission for the accomplishment of the surgery for breast cancer / "Representações sociais de mulheres frente à admissão hospitalar para a realização da cirurgia por câncer de mama"
AUTOR(ES)
Cintia Bragheto Ferreira
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2003
RESUMO
For existing few studies on the moment of the hospital internment for the accomplishment of the surgery for breast cancer, it was more good decided to understand this moment from the referencial of the theory of the social representations and the theory of coping, searching in a group of women the identification of the meaning of the necessary hospital admission for the accomplishment of the surgery. The collect of data was carried through in a composed sample for 10 women and the main involved professionals in its admissions. With the women were done participant observations with utilization of field notes and semi-structured interviews that were qualitative analyzed, and the professionals were observed with utilization of open-closed instrument, that was analyzed in a qualitative and quantitative way. In relation to the women, were identified these categories: loss of the breast, fear of the death, cure, care while return strategy the health and normal day. The strategies of coping identified were: physicians, God, herself, own believes, family, boyfriend, others that had passed for the same experience, courage, confidence, will-power, prayer, dont think and stay together of joking people that are capable to pass good energy. The analyze of social representations and strategies of coping together showed that in 70% of participants were relation between the meaning attributed to he hospital admission and the strategies of coping used. The relation between social representations and strategies of coping showed that the categories: cure, holistic care and normal day were the most effective in the coping of hospital admission. The instrument used with the main professionals who had carried through the hospital admissions showed that 100% of these professionals were nurse; 90% had used the term preferential lady in the period where they had remained with the women; 100% had demonstrated concern with the related physical environment to the hospital admission; 70% had revealed made use to hear the received women; 80% had received the women in erect position e, 60% of the hospital admissions had occurred with the presence of a nurse and one nurse aid. Some of these data had allowed to verify that these professionals had supplied support to the women, but at the same time other data had shown that these same professionals were distant of a care capable to contemplate the physical aspects, mental and spirituals of these women. From this analyze the necessity of the establishment of subjectivity in the moment of admission is emphasized as form of identification of the necessities of the women with breast cancer. For this, it is suggested construction of a complement for the protocol of hospital admission currently used in the infirmary, where the data of this study had been collected.
ASSUNTO(S)
breast cancer hospital admission social representations câncer de mama admissão hospitalar representações sociais
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