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Representational structure of health professionals about care delivery to people living with HIV/Aids
Camila Rodrigues Barbosa1, Elizabeth Teixeira2, Denize Cristina de Oliveira3
1Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá, AP, Brazil, camilarodriguesb08@hotmail.com.
Objectives:
To analyze the social representation structure of health professionals about care delivery to people living with HIV/AIDS and to reflect on that structure in the light of the National Humanization Policy.
Methods:
Exploratory study based on the Social Representations Theory, with emphasis on the structural focus. In total, 114 health professionals from Belém, Pará/Brazil participated in the development of the study, working at four services specialized in HIV/AIDS care, between August 2011 and April 2013. The data were collected through free evocations of the inducing term "Taking care of HIV/AIDS patient" and analyzed using the software Ensemble de Programmes Permettant L'analyse des évocations-EVOC2003.
Results:
The group of subjects has a positive representation structure, organized around the categories: sensitive care, technical care and educative care. When reflecting on the representations structure, four out of five principles of the National Humanization Policy are observed (principle 1 - valuation of the subjective and social dimensions, principle 2 - stimulus for the production of health and subjects, principle 3 - teamwork and principle 5 - construction of autonomy and empowerment).
Conclusions:
The social representation structure of the health professionals about care for people living with HIV/AIDS signals the affective, conceptual and informative dimensions, converging with most principles of the Brazilian humanization policy.
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