Social representations of elderly people about living with HIV/AIDS

• Hauptverfasser: Luciana Araújo dos Reis (Verfasst von), Alessandra Souza de Oliveira (Verfasst von), Luana Araújo dos Reis (Verfasst von), Arianna Oliveira Santana Lopes (Verfasst von), Elaine dos Santos Santana (Verfasst von), Isnara Teixeira de Brito (Verfasst von), Shahjahan Mozart Alexandre da Silva Nery (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: Archive of Gerontology and Geriatrics Research - Peertechz Publications, 2023-10-07.
• Schlagworte: Research Article
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Zusammenfassung

<p>Objective: This study aims to understand the social representations of elderly people about living with HIV/AIDS. </p><p>Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, descriptive-analytical, with a qualitative approach and theoretical and methodological support from the Collective Memory Theory and the Social Representations Theory. Conducted with 38 elderly people. It used a questionnaire with sociodemographic data, health conditions, and a script for a semi-structured interview. The data analysis with the support of the QRS NVivo® Software and in the light of Bardin's Content Analysis.</p><p>Results: The social representations of elderly persons, about living with HIV were: ruptures, living with treatment and coping with prejudice and the struggle for (over)living: the fear of dying and the spread of the diagnosis. </p><p>Conclusion: Social representations of the elderly about living with HIV/AIDS are about living with drug treatment, with the disruptions in their lives, health care, self-care, and pain of social arising from prejudice.</p>

DOI

10.17352/aggr.000034