REPERCUSSIONS AND FEELINGS GENERATED BY THE DISCOVERY OF THE POSITIVE DIAGNOSE FOR HIV/AIDS
It is about a descriptive qualitative study, with the objective of knowing the perceptions and meanings which the patients give to the diagnosis and life with HIV/AIDS. Thirteen patients were interviewed that are ambulatory service users in STD/AIDS in the city of Florianópolis. The data was analyze...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2009 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/5966 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/rgenf/article/view/5966 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Sorodiagnóstico da Aids preconceito percepção social |
| Sumario: | It is about a descriptive qualitative study, with the objective of knowing the perceptions and meanings which the patients give to the diagnosis and life with HIV/AIDS. Thirteen patients were interviewed that are ambulatory service users in STD/AIDS in the city of Florianópolis. The data was analyzed by the analysis method of content, resulting into the following categories: The AIDS diagnosis on the public and living with AIDS: New concepts regarding the disease, The results showed, after analyzed, that the HIV diagnosis causes sadness, fear and the death sentence feeling. The fear to reveal your condition to the family and friends is mostly caused by society’s prejudice, which is a result that HIV is connected with stereotypes. The maintenance of health and physical integrity allows it to realize that AIDS is not a deadly disease, and that indeed it’s possible to live well. |
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