Construction and transformation of social representations of AIDS and implications for health care

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“…A AIDS é o primeiro caso de doença cujas histórias social e médica se desenvolveram conjuntamente, possibilitando uma primeira qualificação social da doença (câncer gay, síndrome gay) (18)(19) . Nesse ponto de vista, o preconceito e a consequente discriminação começaram com o surgimento da epidemia, de modo a desencadear uma preocupação, ainda atual, de se combater a denominada segunda epidemia: a epidemia moral (19) .…”

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“…Nesse ponto de vista, o preconceito e a consequente discriminação começaram com o surgimento da epidemia, de modo a desencadear uma preocupação, ainda atual, de se combater a denominada segunda epidemia: a epidemia moral (19) .…”

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“…Preconceito e morte podem ser reflexos do que os profissionais observam cotidianamente em sua prática assistencial. Não é tão incomum a pessoa que vive com HIV/AIDS referir falta de apoio social e se mostrar fragilizada em decorrência do preconceito, real ou presumido, cerceando a sua vida e concorrendo para a exclusão social (19)(20) . O termo morte, inclusive, pode estar se referindo não somente à morte biológica como consequência extrema da AIDS, mas também à morte social advinda do preconceito que gera discriminação.…”

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“…É um termo encontrado em estudos realizados com profissionais de saúde (19)(20)(21) e que expressa emoção frente à possibilidade da exposição ao vírus, em decorrência das práticas de saúde com pacientes infectados. Por um lado, os indivíduos se sentem amedrontados pelos riscos a que estão expostos no seu cotidiano profissional, mesmo com o auxílio de equipamentos de proteção.…”

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“…A frequência discreta desses termos no núcleo central pode estar indicando uma mudança na representação social deste grupo. Em estudos mais atuais (19)(20) esses elementos não são mencionados ou, quando são evocados, ficam posicionados na periferia da estrutura da representação.…”

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Profissionais De Saúde Falam Mais Sobre Cuidado E Menos Sobre Hiv/Aids

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RESUMO: Objetivou-se apreender as representações sociais de profissionais de saúde sobre a síndrome da imunodeficiência adquirida e o cuidado às pessoas que vivem com vírus da imunodeficiência humana, comparando os índices de diversidade e de raridade. HEALTH PROFESSIONALS TALK MORE ABOUT CARE THAN ABOUT ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROMEABSTRACT: This study aimed to apprehend the social representations elaborated by health professionals on the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and care to people living with the human immunodeficiency virus through comparison of the diversity and rarity indexes. This is a multi-method study, based on the Theory of Social Representations, involving 73 health professionals, in four specialized services units, in the city of Salvador, Bahia, in 2015. Data was collected with the use of the free word association test (processing was made with EVOC software) and calculation of centrality degrees. 'Prejudice and death "are the nucleus of the representation of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and "advice and care" constitute the nucleus of Care. It is concluded that the structuring elements of social representation denote the presence of value judgments, and the calculation of diversity and rarity indexes revealed that there was less sharing of evocations about the disease than about Care. DESCRIPTORS: Care; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Health worker; Nursing; Semantics. RESUMEN: Estudio cuya finalidad fue aprehender las representaciones sociales de profesionales de salud acerca del síndrome de la imunodeficiencia adquirida y el cuidado con las personas que viven con el virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana, comparando los índices de diversidad y de raridad. Es un estudio multimétodos, con base en la Teoría de las Representaciones Sociales, de lo cual participaron 73 profesionales de salud, en cuatro unidades de servicios especializados, en la ciudad de Salvador, Bahia, en 2015. Los datos fueron obtenidos por medio de aplicación de la técnica de asociación libre de palabras procesadas en el software EVOC y calculándose los índices de centralidad. 'Prejuicio y muerte' constituyen el nucleo central de la representación del Síndrome de la inmunodeficiencia adquirida, y 'aconsejar y acoger', el de Cuidado. Se constata que los elementos estructurantes de la representación social apuntan la presencia de juicios de valor; el cálculo de los índices de diversidad y raridad reveló que se comparten menos informaciones y experiencias sobre la enfermedad que sobre e Cuidado.

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AIDS as social construction: text mining of AIDS-related information in the Italian press

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Given the relevance of AIDS as a public health problem in the Italian context and of the role of mass media in the social construction of the phenomenon, the aim of the present study is twofold: (1) to explore the main AIDS-related themes in the Italian popular press; (2) to analyse the temporal trends of AIDS representations over the last decades. For the research, we decided to consult Italian newspaper articles produced between 1985 and 1990 and between 2005 and 2010 using the archives of the main two national newspapers (La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera), resulting in an overall sample of 446 newspaper articles. A computer-aided content analysis allowed the detection of five different thematic domains (clusters), respectively focused on: Medical care (7.47%), Family support (37.03%), Science and religion debate (27%), Social exclusion (17.6%) and Healthcare policies (10.9%). These thematic domains are conceived along two main latent dimensions (factors) which explain 72.47% of the data variance which respectively deal with: (1) Attitudes towards people with AIDS (care versus avoidance) and (2) Social mandate on AIDS (powerlessness versus control). The study results also reveal the potential evolution of representations of people with AIDS over time: from stigmatised subjects who represent a risk for the entire society within a climate of social control to people progressively symbolised as frail subjects that need to be taken care of.

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COVID-19 and the social organization of knowledge in Wikipedia: a study of social representations

Roszkowski

Włodarczyk

2021

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PurposeThe paper aims to present the development of conceptualization of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) based on associations with other articles on English edition of Wikipedia. The main goal of the paper is to study the social organization of knowledge about COVID-19 within the Wikipedia community of practice.Design/methodology/approachThe methodological approach taken in this study was based on the application of Moscovici's theory of social representations to Wikipedia's knowledge organization system (KOS). Internal links in the Wikipedia article about COVID-19 were considered anchors in its social representations. Each link in the introductory part of the article was considered an indicator of the semantic relationship between COVID-19 and other concepts from Wikipedia's knowledge base. The subject of this study was links extracted from all revisions of the COVID-19 article between February and September 2020. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were performed on these conceptual structures using both synchronic and diachronic approaches.FindingsIt was found that the evolution of anchors in the Wikipedia article on COVID-19 was in line with the mechanism of symbolic coping related to infectious disease. It went through stages of divergence, convergence and normalization. It shows that this mechanism governs the social organization of knowledge related to COVID-19 on Wikipedia.Originality/valueNo studies have been devoted to the image of COVID-19 as presented by the evolution of links in Wikipedia and its implications for knowledge organization (KO).

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Construction and transformation of social representations of AIDS and implications for health care

Cited by 29 publications

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Profissionais De Saúde Falam Mais Sobre Cuidado E Menos Sobre Hiv/Aids

Profissionais De Saúde Falam Mais Sobre Cuidado E Menos Sobre Hiv/Aids

AIDS as social construction: text mining of AIDS-related information in the Italian press

COVID-19 and the social organization of knowledge in Wikipedia: a study of social representations

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