Representação social de mulheres privadas de liberdade sobre tuberculose e HIV/Aids

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the Social Representations that women deprived of liberty produce about Tuberculosis and HIV/Aids. Method: qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research with a contribution to the procedural approach of the Theory of Social Representations. The study scenario was a prison unit in Zona da Mata Mineira. 68 women deprived of their liberty participated. There was no refusal from any participant. Inclusion criteria were: 11stud deprived of liberty, ≥18 years, regardless of ethnicity or race, religion, political conviction, economic status. Data were collected between October 1 and December 20, 2021 during todo individual clinical evaluation, through a script built on the basis of the national protocol for the investigation and 11studa11e1111 infectious diseases, in the health center and in the female 11studa11e of the unit. At first, a semi-structured questionnaire was used to identify sociodemographic, behavioral and health history characteristics. Subsequently, the projective technique was used, performed through previously selected words, inherent to the scientific 11studa11e1111 the inducing terms: health; caution; tuberculosis; and HIV/Aids, each term being presented by 12 specific words. During the choice of words, the women explained and justified their 11studa11. Finally, a semi-structured script was used, based on the open interview technique, which sought to apprehend the Representations of the health-care process and the meanings attributed to Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS by women deprived of their liberty. The interviews were transcribed in full at the time of collection, since it was not possible to enter a recorder. The analysis of the characterization of the participants was based on 11studa11e and relative 11studa11e11 with the support of SPSS version 26. Data from the projective technique were entered into todo Excel spreadsheet and analyzed using the statistical program Statistics. And the interviews were read and reread carefully and exhaustively, selecting the Record Units, being grouped into Meaning Units and defining them in conceptual categories according to the analogical regrouping of the Record Units according to the three stages of thematic 11studa11e analysis- categorical. Discursive categories were: 1) Conceptions of the health-disease process and socially shared (self)care relationships and; 2) Representational constructs of vulnerability of women deprived of their liberty to HIV/AIDS and 11stud sexually transmitted infections. Research approved by the Research Ethics Committee and approved under 11studa11 number 3,784,839, of 12/19/2019. All ethical and legal research procedures were respected. Results and discussion: were presented in article format. Considerations: the social representations portrayed perceptions about health and (self) care. Being healthy involves quitting smoking, not using (i)licit drugs, eating well, sleeping well and feeling safe/protected. Vulnerability was marked by representational constructs that portray vulnerability, such as the number of women per cell, the type of sexual practices adopted and the sharing of personal objects. The need to elucidate the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of these diseases is 12studa12e, as well as identifying gaps and pointing out ways to make care for the population deprived of liberty more effective in the health care network of the municipality.