This study intends to identify the social representations of nursing staff about anorexia and bulimia nervosa and about carries of these eating disorders as long as to correlate these representations with the interventions made in the se professionals daily life, inside of a psychiatric hospital. Semi-structured, and individuals interviews were made with twelve members of the nursing staff of a university hospital. The moscovician theory of social representation was adopted as referential-methodological referential and the data were submitted for content analysis in Bardin' s point of view. From this analysis emerged themes as physical and psychic symptoms, besides psychosocial factors, which constituted the category "knowledge Construction". The construction of knowledge seemed to be anchored essentially on a medical-scientific lecture diffused in the institution, in a interface with the pratic knowledge which the daily life provides. On the other side, the other category was outlined from "Actions / Feelings Field", constituted by themes as control / limit, where the worker' s psychic suffering is more evident, mostly in imminence of suicide. By other way, is by themes as the listening, confidence link and individually care that professionals care express their pleasure on work.
OBJETIVOS: identificar as representações sociais da equipe de enfermagem acerca dos transtornos da alimentação. MÉTODOS: pesquisa qualitativa, descritiva, exploratória, na qual foram entrevistados 12 profissionais, cujos relatos foram analisados sob a ótica da representação social. RESULTADOS: os dados foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo, da qual emergiram duas categorias - "A construção do conhecimento" e "Campo das ações/sentimentos" que compreende temas como controle/limite, em que o sofrimento psíquico do trabalhador é mais evidente, principalmente na iminência do suicídio. DISCUSSÃO: as representações sociais dos profissionais mostram-se ancoradas num discurso médico-científico, numa interface com o conhecimento prático da vivência cotidiana. CONCLUSÃO: precisamos atentar para o conteúdo afetivo-simbólico que os indivíduos imprimem nas relações e cuidar de todos os envolvidos nesse processo.
This qualitative and descriptive study takes the family of patients with eating disorders as a starting point. We aimed to contextualize this theme and apprehend, from the reports of interviewed professionals, their representations about the family of these patients and its influence on the genesis and development of the illness. Data showed that, at first, the family is represented as a primary social group which is always expecting certain behaviors and which, as a formative element, participates in the origin of the disorder. Subsequently, the family theme appears to be more directed to understanding the family as an element that maintains the eating disorder, in which the not very defined limits among its members disturb the relationship, often evidencing an alteration in the hierarchy: the parents start to be controlled by their child.
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