The representations of adolescents about gynecological consultation

Objective: To analyze the social representation of adolescents about gynecological consultation and the influence of those in searching for consultations. Method: Qualitative descriptive study based on the Social Representations Theory, conducted with 50 adolescents in their last year of middle school. The data was collected between April and May of 2010 by Evocations and a Focal Group. The software EVOC and contextual analysis were used in the data treatment. Results: The elements fear and constraint, constant in the central nucleus, can justify the low frequency of adolescents in consultations. The term embarrassment in the peripheral system reinforce current sociocultural norms, while prevention, associated with learning about sex and clarifying doubts, allows to envision an educative function. Obtained testimonies in the focal groups exemplify and reinforce those findings. Conclusion: For an effective health education, professionals, including nurses, need to clarify the youth individually and collectively about their rights to privacy, secrecy, in addition to focus the gynecological consultation as a promotion measure to sexual and reproductive health.

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Comparative study on the social representations of cancer and breast cancer

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckab120.085 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 31 (Supplement_2) ◽

Author(s):

Margarida Pocinho ◽

Fatima Matos ◽

Ana Amaral

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Social Representations ◽

Descriptive Study ◽

Breast Cancer Treatment ◽

Social Representation ◽

Central Core ◽

Central Nucleus ◽

The Social ◽

Symbolic Universe ◽

Theory Of Social Representations

Abstract Background The symbolic universe of cancer is associated with death, but its treatment has undergone innumerable innovations, which may lead to a new meaning for social representations. The theory of social representations seeks the new, which changes in the knowledge of common sense (Guareschi & Jovchelovitch, 1994). Thus, the objective of this work is to identify the social representations of cancer and breast cancer, identifying their changes and their meanings based on the central nucleus and the peripheral system. Methods Qualitative and descriptive study, based on the structural approach of the theory of social representations. The sample was non-probabilistic and due to accessibility. The collection instrument was a Word Evocation Test with two inducing words, ‘cancer’ and ‘breast cancer’. The subjects were asked to mention three words that came to their mind immediately and spontaneously. The SPSS and IRAMUTEQ software were used. Results 753 subjects participated and 2316 words were evoked for each inducing word. In the central core of cancer the words pain, illness, death, suffering. Central core of breast cancer: treatment, pain, feeling, woman, strength. Conclusions The social representation of cancer is still strongly death, while in breast cancer it is the treatment. Suffering and pain are part of the central core of the two words and continue to characterize the disease, but in breast cancer the word strength appears. It is concluded that the social representation of breast cancer is being reframed.

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Social representation of domestic violence against women among Nursing Technicians and Community Agents

Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP ◽

10.1590/s0080-623420150000100003 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 22-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Camila Daiane Silva ◽

Vera Lúcia de Oliveira Gomes ◽

Denize Cristina de Oliveira ◽

Sergio Corrêa Marques ◽

Adriana Dora da Fonseca ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Social Representations ◽

Social Representation ◽

Central Nucleus ◽

Context Analysis ◽

The Social ◽

Domestic Violence Against Women ◽

The City ◽

Structured Representation

OBJECTIVE To analyze the social representations of the Nursing Technicians and Community Health Agents about domestic violence against women. METHOD A qualitative study carried out in the city of Rio Grande, RS, in which evocations and interviews were collected between July and November 2013. For the treatment of data were used the EVOC 2005 software and the context analysis. RESULT It is a structured representation, in which the central nucleus contains conceptual, imaging and attitudinal elements, namely: abuse, aggression, physical aggression, cowardice and lack of respect. Such terms were present in the context of the interviews. The professionals acknowledged that violence is not limited to physical aspects and were judgemental about the acts of the aggressor. CONCLUSION This knowledge may enable the problematization of the studied phenomenon with the team, and facilitate the search for prevention and intervention strategies for victims, offenders and managers of health services.

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“Experiences marked by prejudice(s)?”: nurses’ representations on ‘transvestite’ people

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0749 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 73 (suppl 6) ◽

Author(s):

Ester Mascarenhas Oliveira ◽

Jeane Freitas de Oliveira ◽

Cleuma Sueli Santos Suto ◽

Carle Porcino ◽

Sara Peixoto de Almeida Brandão ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Representations ◽

Central Element ◽

Free Association ◽

Social Representation ◽

Central Nucleus ◽

Health Care Practices ◽

The Social ◽

Care Practices ◽

Nursing Courses ◽

Graduate Nursing

ABSTRACT Objectives: to learn and analyze the structure of nurses’ social representations about transvestite people. Methods: a qualitative research based on the Theory of Social Representations, with 110 nurses enrolled in Graduate Nursing courses, who answered the Free-Association Test, with the stimulus ‘transvestite’. Data were processed by the software Ensemble de Programmes Permettant I’ Analysedes Évocations. Results: in the central nucleus, the term “prejudice” was the most evoked, followed by “homosexual”, “identity” and “female-make-up”. Social representation is anchored in the social organization in which transvestite people are still seen and/or associated with homosexuals who make up and assume an identity, without being seen and/or understood as they really are. Final Considerations: although prejudice is noteworthy as a central element, terms present in the peripheral system reveal that the group recognizes transvestites as a person with rights, which can translate into health care practices.

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O núcleo central da representação social de estagiários(as) do curso de Pedagogia/UERN acerca da docência

Revista Principia - Divulgação Científica e Tecnológica do IFPB ◽

10.18265/1517-0306a2020v1n52p157-168 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (52) ◽

pp. 157

Author(s):

Antônia Maíra Emelly Cabral da Silva Vieira ◽

Elda Silva Do Nascimento Melo

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Word Association ◽

Social Representations ◽

Rio Grande ◽

Social Representation ◽

Central Nucleus ◽

Font Size ◽

The Social ◽

Central Elements ◽

Free Word

This study is part of the master’s dissertation entitled “The social representation of interns of the Education course about teaching” presented to the postgraduate program in Education of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). The research seeks to identify the social representation of interns of the Education course at UERN about teaching. We present the results of the evaluation of the TALP (Free Word Association Technique), analyzed in the light of the Theory of Social Representations (MOSCOVICI, 1978) and the Central Nucleus Theory (ABRIC, 1998) with the help of EVOC software and the technique of content analysis (BARDIN, 2011) that allowed us to visualize the central nucleus of the social representation of teaching. The results contemplate regularities that helped us to perceive that the subjects of the research construct a social representation of teaching, rooted in the central elements as: love, dedication, teaching and learning.

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Social representation regarding the use of alcoholic beverages by adolescents

Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) ◽

10.1590/1982-0275201936e180098 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 36 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Luciane Maya YAMAUCHI ◽

André Luiz Monezi ANDRADE ◽

Bruno de Oliveira PINHEIRO ◽

Sônia Regina Fiorim ENUMO ◽

Denise de MICHELI

Keyword(s):

Social Behavior ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Social Representations ◽

Social Representation ◽

The Other ◽

Alcoholic Beverages ◽

Central Nucleus ◽

Positive Thinking ◽

The Social ◽

Social Representation Theory

Abstract This study evaluated the Social Representations regarding the use of alcoholic beverages by adolescents (N = 386; Mage = 15.6; SD = 1.94) based on the Theory of Social Representations. The following instruments were used: sociodemographic questionnaire, Drug Use Screening Inventory and Word Evocation Questionnaire. The Social Representations was evaluated from prototypical and similarity reviews, based on the Social Representation Theory and on the Central Nucleus Theory, and the other data were analyzed based on descriptive and inferential tests. The results indicated that 45.0% of the adolescents had consumed alcoholic beverages during the month before data collection, 24.5% of them with a certain regularity (more than three times a month). With regard to Social Representations it was observed that the words “beer” and “party” were the most evoked (p < 0.05). Alcohol consumption by adolescents was considered an acceptable social behavior as it is associated with positive thinking and with socializing characteristics among peers (p < 0.01).

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Meanings and dimensions of cancer by sick people - a structural analysis of social representations

Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP ◽

10.1590/s1980-220x2018023203504 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

Author(s):

Julia Wakiuchi ◽

Denize Cristina de Oliveira ◽

Sonia Silva Marcon ◽

Magda Lúcia Felix de Oliveira ◽

Catarina Aparecida Sales

Keyword(s):

Social Care ◽

Social Representations ◽

Malignant Neoplasm ◽

Social Representation ◽

Central Nucleus ◽

Chemotherapy Treatment ◽

Sick People ◽

The Social ◽

The Individual ◽

Depth Interviews

Abstract Objective: To describe the contents and structure of the social representation of cancer. Method: A qualitative study based on the Theory of Social Representations, carried out in a High Complexity Care Unit in Oncology. Data collection included a socio-occupational and clinical characterization questionnaire and free evocations form from 100 cancer patients in chemotherapy treatment and in-depth interviews with 29 of them. The analysis was performed using EVOC software. Results: One hundred (100) patients participated in the study. The social representation of cancer has the words normal, difficult disease, death and fear in its central nucleus. The apparent ambivalence between the continuity of life and its finitude as structuring meanings of this representation enables establishing an inferential hypothesis that relates normal disease to the possibility of treatment, control and cure of cancer, while the fear of death remains in the representational field linked to the disease, which has a difficult treatment to cope with. Conclusion: The social representations of cancer based on the presented interrelationships provide reflections which may contribute to increasing the individual and social care of patients with malignant neoplasm and their family in health services.

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Social Representation of Family: A Comparative Study on Italian Young and Older Adults

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x21994160 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0192513X2199416

Author(s):

Pozzi Maura ◽

Fasanelli Roberto ◽

Marta Elena ◽

Ellena Adriano Mauro ◽

Virgilio Giuseppe ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Young Adults ◽

Social Representations ◽

Social Representation ◽

Central Nucleus ◽

Common View ◽

Political Debates ◽

The Social ◽

Open Question ◽

Structured Questionnaire

In Italian society, known for the massive presence of so-called traditional families, different forms of it are nowadays spreading. The scientific and political debates on this issue are very intense and the common view of family is changing. Taking as a reference the theory of social representations and in particular the central nucleus theory, the present study aims to evoke the social representation (SR) of family in two different Italian groups: 220 young adults and 83 older adults. A semi-structured questionnaire divided into two sections was used: an open question (content) and a task of free associations, based on the technique of hierarchical evocations (structure). A content analysis and a representational structure analysis were applied. Comparing the SRs emerged among the two groups, young adults evoking family as an entity connoted predominantly in an affective way, while older adults evoking positive values declined in a more concrete and pragmatic way.

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Alimentação e aleitamento materno exclusivo do recém-nascido: representação social do pai [Feeding and exclusive breastfeeding of newborns: social representation of fathers] [Alimentación y la lactancia materna exclusiva del recién nacido: representación social del padre]

Revista Enfermagem UERJ ◽

10.12957/reuerj.2018.26740 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. e26740

Author(s):

Ihana Arrieche Fazio ◽

Camila Daiane Silva ◽

Daniele Ferreira Acosta ◽

Marina Soares Mota

Keyword(s):

Exclusive Breastfeeding ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Social Representations ◽

Social Representation ◽

Contextual Analysis ◽

University Hospital ◽

Central Nucleus ◽

Maternity Ward ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Structural Relationships

Objetivo: identificar a estrutura e os conteúdos da representação social do pai acerca da alimentação e do aleitamento materno exclusivo e analisar as relações estruturais entre essas representações. Método: estudo qualitativo, fundamentado na Teoria das Representações Sociais. Realizado na maternidade de um hospital universitário ao sul do país, com 54 pais. Coletaram-se os dados por evocações com os termos indutores alimentação do bebê e aleitamento materno exclusivo e entrevistas semiestruturadas. Trataram-se os dados pelo software EVOC e análise de contéudo. pesquisa aprovada com parecer nº 71/2016. Resultados: a palavra aleitamento materno figurou no núcleo central de ambos os termos indutores. Em relação ao aleitamento materno exclusivo, ainda constaram as palavras essencial e exclusivo, demonstrando o aspecto inerente à saúde. Conclusão: a representação dos pais teve como influência os significados de práticas culturais, todavia eles reconhecem o aleitamento materno além do aspecto nutricional, ou seja, valorizam a esfera afetiva dessa prática.ABSTRACTObjective: to identify the structure and content of fathers’ social representations of feeding and exclusive breastfeeding, and to analyze the structural relationships among these representations. Method: this qualitative study, based on Social Representations Theory, was conducted with 54 fathers on the maternity ward of a university hospital in south Brazil. Data collected through evocations from the stimulus-terms ‘baby feeding’ and ‘exclusive breastfeeding’, and semi-structured interviews, were treated using EVOC software and contextual analysis. The study was approved in Opinion No. 71/2016. Results: the word ‘breastfeeding’ appeared in the central nucleus of both stimulus-terms. In relation to ‘exclusive breastfeeding’, the words ‘essential’ and ‘exclusive’ were still present, demonstrating that his was inherent to health. Conclusion: fathers’ representations were influenced by the meanings of cultural practices, but they acknowledge breastfeeding beyond its nutritional aspects, that is, they value the affective dimension of this practice.RESUMEN: Objetivo: identificar la estructura y los contenidos de la representación social del padre sobre la alimentación y la lactancia materna exclusiva y analizar las relaciones estructurales entre estas representaciones. Métodos: Estudio cualitativo basado en la teoría de las representaciones sociales. Realizado en la maternidad de un hospital universitario al sur del país, con 54 padres. Se obtuvieron los datos por evocaciones con los términos inductores alimentación del bebé y lactancia materna exclusiva y entrevistas semiestructuradas. Los datos se han procesado con el software EVOC y análisis de contenido. Investigación aprobada con dictamen Nº 71/2016. Resultados: la palabra lactancia materna estaba presente en el núcleo central de ambos términos inductores. Respecto a la lactancia materna exclusiva constaron las palabras ‘esencial y exclusivo’, lo que demuestra el aspecto inherente a la salud. Conclusión: la representación de los padres tuvo la influencia de los significados de prácticas culturales, sin embargo reconocen la lactancia materna más allá del aspecto nutricional, es decir, valoran la esfera afectiva de esta práctica.

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Social representation of reproductive biotechnologies among nurses working in sexual and reproductive health

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0558 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 74 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ana Beatriz Azevedo Queiroz ◽

Renata Porto dos Santos Mohamed ◽

Elen Petean Parmejiani ◽

Maria Aparecida Vasconcelos Moura ◽

Ana Luiza de Oliveira Carvalho ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Reproductive Health ◽

Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽

Social Representations ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Social Representation ◽

Human Reproduction ◽

Heterosexual Couples ◽

Assisted Human Reproduction ◽

The Social ◽

Practice Methods

ABSTRACT Objectives: to compare the social representations of reproductive biotechnologies among sexual and reproductive health nurses, and their links with professional practice. Methods: an analytical, comparative, qualitative research, supported by the Theory of Social Representation, carried out in May/2014-February/2015, with 32 nurses from the city of Rio de Janeiro. Semi-structured interview, analyzed by ALCESTE® software. Results: nurses not active in assisted human reproduction represent reproductive biotechnologies as unnatural methods of human reproduction, assessing the practice in this field as generalist and bureaucratic. Those who work represent as auxiliary and supporting nature for heterosexual couples, considering the innovative and specialized practice. Final considerations: each group presented specific contents and dimensions about reproductive biotechnologies. The representations are centered on moral, normative and ideological personal values, anchored in the traditional conceptions of human and family reproduction, but also collective, acquired in the professional routine, showing group identity and its distinct practices considering reproductive biotechnologies.

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Social representations of AIDS and their quotidian interfaces for people living with HIV

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/s0104-11692011000300006 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 485-492 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Antonio Marcos Tosoli Gomes ◽

Érika Machado Pinto Silva ◽

Denize Cristina de Oliveira

Keyword(s):

Social Representations ◽

Social Representation ◽

People Living With Hiv ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

The Social ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

Acquired Immunodeficiency ◽

Immunodeficiency Syndrome ◽

Living With Hiv ◽

Continuous Use

This qualitative descriptive study, guided by the Social Representations Theory, aimed to describe the content of the social representations regarding the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) for seropositive individuals in outpatient monitoring of the public health network and to analyze the interface of the social representations of AIDS with the quotidian of the individuals living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), especially in the adherence to treatment process Interviews were conducted with 30 seropositive individuals and the manual content analysis technique was used. From the analysis, six categories emerged that re-translated the quotidian of seropositive people permeated by the stigma, prejudice, struggle for life and the need for the continuous use of antiretrovirals. AIDS was assimilated to chronic diseases such as diabetes, showing a trend of transformation of the social representation of AIDS, substituting the idea of death, with life. It is concluded that people living with HIV are more optimistic due to effective treatments for the control of the disease.

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