Social representations of adolescents and youth living with HIV about adolescence, sexuality and AIDS
The adolescence is marked by changes bio-psycho-social. The teenager seropositive, in addition to dealing with these changes is to address the limitations of seropositivity end exercise safe sex practices in order to not re-infect/spread the virus. The objectives are: to understand the Social Repres...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/12815 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ufg.br/fen/article/view/12815 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Sexuality Adolescent HIV Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Sexualidad Adolescentes VIH Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida. Sexualidade Adolescente Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida |
| Sumario: | The adolescence is marked by changes bio-psycho-social. The teenager seropositive, in addition to dealing with these changes is to address the limitations of seropositivity end exercise safe sex practices in order to not re-infect/spread the virus. The objectives are: to understand the Social Representations (SR) of adolescents and young living with HIV/AIDS on “adolescence” and “adolescence and AIDS” and identify how they live their sexuality. The study consists in part of a research, being qualitative type of, based on the on RS theory, developed with 18 seropositive subjects 11 to 20 years who are attending a reference center. We conducted content analysis of semi-structured interviews. That despite internal conflicts and constraints in being a person in adolescence and/or young living with HIV, the ripening process, brought even by the very condition of seropositivity drives the search for strategies that provide better coping with sexuality. Therefore, there is a need for interventions in health and sexuality of these people. Descriptors: Sexuality; Adolescent; HIV; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. |
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