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Persons living with AIDS in nurses' social representations: analysis of central, contranormative and attitudinal
Tadeu Lessa da Costa1, Denize Cristina de Oliveira, Gláucia Alexandre Formozo
1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro-Campus Macaé, Brazil. tadeulessa@yahoo.com.br
Objectives:
to describe and analyze the centrality, the mute zone and the attitudes expressed in nurses' social representations of people with Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
Method:
the subjects were 30 nurses from a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro. The data was collected using a Likert scale.
Results:
the data pointed to a process of representational change regarding Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, with the assumption of a more positive attitude regarding living with this health issue. The hypothesis of the existence of a mute zone in the representation, comprising elements with a contranormative character, was strengthened.
Conclusion:
the influence of the dynamics of social normativity on how the social representations studied are expressed may contribute to a better understanding of its structuring process. It also helps in the analysis of possible gaps among the nurses' discourses and practices in relation to Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
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