Interpersonal Relations in
Social Representations of the nursing care provided to HIV positive Clientele
Gláucia Alexandre Formozo1, Denize Cristina de Oliveira2
1,2 Rio de Janeiro
Federal University, Brazil
ABSTRACT
It is
preliminary note of the doctoral thesis that aims at analyzing the components
of interpersonal relationships present in the social representations of nursing
professionals about the nursing care provided to the HIV-positive client. The thesis
shall consist of an exploratory descriptive study, based on a qualitative
approach and the Theory of Social Representations, having as a scenario a
public university hospital in the city of
Descriptors:
Nursing care, Interpersonal relationships, Social
representations
INTRODUCTION
Nursing care includes technical and relational actions
and should not be limited to performing technical procedures, but also includes
the proximity to the individual cared1. In this context, nursing
professionals often use interpersonal relationships as a working tool and are
required to develop social skills that provide support for these processes of
interaction. And what little development of social skills by professionals and
clients may cause social conflicts between these subjects and impair the care.
Therefore, one perceives the great importance that the
social skills represent for the achievement of nursing care, since they relate
to the existence of different classes of learned social behaviors, according to
typical parameters of each context and culture needed to cope with the demands
posed by interpersonal situations imposed by the society in which the person is
inserted2.
Specifically regarding the nursing care provided to
HIV positive clients, one should be attentive to the particularities that these
clients bring along by engaging in the psychosocial constitution, prejudice and
discrimination about the disease and its affected patients3. This to
understand that the social representations built can direct the practices
adopted.
Understanding that social representations consist of a
type of knowledge, socially developed and shared, which contributes to the
construction of a common reality to a social group4, we may notice
that the social representations about nursing care provided to HIV positive
clients can determine the activation of components of specific interpersonal
relationships, determining different profiles of this care.
Therefore, the general objective is: to analyze the
components of interpersonal relationships present in the social representations
of nursing professionals about the nursing care provided to the HIV-positive
client. And as specific objectives: characterize the components of
interpersonal relationships present in the social representations of nursing professionals
about the nursing care provided to HIV-positive clients; identify the different
profiles of nursing care from the different components of the interpersonal
relations utilized, and compare the profile of nursing care according to
professional categories.
METHODOLOGY
In order to achieve the desired goals, an exploratory
descriptive study will be carried out, based on a qualitative approach and the
Theory of Social Representations.
The study setting will be a public university hospital
located in the city of
For the collection of data a characterization form
with socio-economic and professional variables of the individuals and a
semi-structured interview script will be used. The issues that will compose
these instruments were selected on the understanding that they may influence
the construction of social representation regarding the nursing care provided
to HIV-positive clients, as well as in the interpersonal relationships profiles
established between the subjects involved in the actions of this caring. The
interviews will be recorded in digital MP3 format, and later transcribed.
In the data analysis the interviews will be submitted
initially to the lexical analysis by means of the software ALCESTE 4.10
(Lexical Analysis by the Context of a set of text segments), using the analysis
feature tri-croisé in order to make a tracing
of thematic and structural content of the set of interviews. And, subsequently,
from the emerged classes of the Alceste assessment,
the analysis of thematic content will be held, in order to characterize the
components of the interpersonal relations and representational profiles.
All the rules and guidelines for conducting the
research, involving human beings contained in Resolution No. 196, of October
10, 1996, of the CNS will be respected.
REFERENCES
1. Waldow VR. Cuidado humano: o resgate necessário. Porto Alegre: Editora Sagra Luzzatto; 1999.
2. Del Prette A, Del Prette ZAP. Psicologia das relações interpessoais: vivências para o trabalho em grupo. 6ª Ed. Petrópolis (RJ): Vozes; 2007.
3. Guedes JAD, Borenstein MS, Meirelles BHS. Coping of Nursing Professionals who take care of people with Aids-an Educative-Reflective Practice. Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing, 6(2); 2007.
4. Jodelet, D. Representações sociais: um
domínio
Project Data
Projeto de doutorado
do Programa de Pós-Graduação
Aprovação no CEP em 04/12/2006 No. do parecer 1575-CEP/HUPE