Opiniões de jovens universitários sobre pessoas com HIV/AIDS: um estudo exploratório sobre preconceito

Abstract

O estudo objetivou identificar opiniões de estudantes universitários sobre pessoas vivendo com HIV/AIDS, comparando-as segundo sexo e área de formação. Participaram 503 universitários, 53% mulheres, das áreas de humanas, exatas e da saúde. Afirmativas que versavam sobre pessoas soropositivas foram apresentadas, com respostas em escala Likert de cinco pontos. Com relação às afirmativas que versavam sobre demissão do emprego de pessoa infectada pelo vírus HIV e proibição de crianças soropositivas frequentarem escola, alunos da área de saúde tenderam a discordar, com diferença significativa em relação aos participantes de humanas e exatas. Nas questões "mulheres portadoras do HIV/AIDS deveriam evitar filhos" e "uma pessoa infectada pelo vírus da AIDS é responsável por essa condição de saúde", os grupos se distribuíram de modo equitativo. Não se observaram diferenças relevantes entre homens e mulheres. Há necessidade de maior informação e debate para modificar opiniões preconceituosas em relação a pessoas com HIV/AIDS entre universitários.

Existe relação entre o conhecimento de estudantes a respeito das formas de contágio do HIV/AIDS e suas respostas sobre a proximidade com soropositivos?

“…Regarding the questions applied in our study, few students stated that their employer should fire someone living with HIV/AIDS for their protection and that of their co-workers. Also in the university environment of the study by Seidl et al 6 , about a quarter of the sample studied agreed with this statement. However, our work did not compare students from different areas and found responses of non-acceptance of proximity to people living with HIV/AIDS at a slightly lower frequency than the study by Seidl et al 6 , where about 8.2% of the sample fully agreed with the statement that the employer should fire someone living with HIV/AIDS to protect other workers and 7.8% agreed in part, with a percentage of about 15% of the sample agreeing with this statement, in a gradual scale of agreement, which was not used in our study.…”

“…In our study with university students who also had a good knowledge about HIV/AIDS ways of transmission, we found that few students demonstrated the non-acceptance of proximity to people living with HIV/AIDS. In Brazil, a study by Seidl et al 6 carried out at the University of Brasília (UnB) revealed that health students tend to have less exclusionary positions when compared to students of humanities and exact sciences with regard to people living with HIV/ AIDS right to education and work. One of the reasons attributed to this difference would be a greater knowledge about the subject by students of health courses, based on the very context of the area 6 .…”

“…According to Dziekaniak and Rover 3 , information is the basic input for the development of knowledge, and knowledge is the added value to information, "what is done with it", the differential that will lead to successful decision making, the "know how to do". While knowledge does not necessarily imply a behavioral change 4,5 , disinformation, according to lit-erature, can facilitate prejudice and hamper the fight against stereotyped ideas about the disease 6 . Several studies evaluate knowledge about health issues through the most diverse questionnaires 7,8 .…”

Living With the Hiv/Aids Carrier: Opinion of Carnival Participantes

“…12 The feeling of uncertainty dominates that individual stigmatized to the extent that he never knows whether it will be accepted by the so-called "normal" or will come to be perceived solely through its stigmatizing attributes. 6 In order to change the social and cultural behavior in order to provide decent respect for the human person to the United Nations (UN) The analysis shows that demographic characteristics ( …”

“…E-mail: viniciusfonte@hotmail.com. 6 Graduating Nursing of Veiga de Almeida University. Scholar in the extension project: "Só a alegria vai contagiar!…”