Cristiane Galvão Ribeiro

Avaliação da qualidade de vida em soropositivos para o HIV

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has treatment and effective possibilities of control, hence motivating studies and professional interventions towards the improvement of the quality of life. To evaluate the perception of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and quality of life by Human Immunodeficiency Virus serumapositive individuals. Ninety-one subjects of both genders participated of this study. It was utilized the test of free association of words and the data were processed by the Tri-deux-mots software and interpreted through the factorial analysis of correspondence. The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome was represented as a disease that can cause numerous consequences such as psychosocial, professional, familycand organicrelated. The quality of life was represented by elements that have both subjective and objective characteristics, enclosing this way, different matters present in the concept of life quality advocated by the World Health Organization, such as: the psychological aspect, social relations, environment, and spiritual aspects. Even though the antiretroviral drugs propitiate a general health improvement, they are not enough. Thus there is the necessity of an approach toward the psychological disturbs in order to obtain life quality in a more plentiful way.

Repercussões psicossociais da depressão no contexto da Aids

A Aids e, frequentemente, associada a transtornos psiquiatricos, sendo a depressao o mais comum deles. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivos: 1) apreender as representacoes sociais da Aids e da depressao por soropositivos para o HIV; 2) avaliar a prevalencia da sintomatologia da depressao. Participaram deste estudo 91 sujeitos soropositivos, de ambos os sexos, com media de idade de 38 anos. Foram utilizados, como instrumentos, o Teste de Associacao Livre de Palavras e o inventario de Beck para medir depressao. Os dados obtidos possibilitaram representacoes da depressao e da Aids como uma doenca que atinge o ser humano em sua globalidade, repercutindo em varios aspectos de sua vida, tais como na qualidade de vida, na produtividade e na capacitacao social. A prevalencia da sintomatologia depressiva encontrada neste estudo (64%) remete a necessidade do preparo dos profissionais para diagnosticarem e tratarem esse fenomeno dentro do contexto da Aids.

Profissionais que trabalham com AIDS e suas representações sociais sobre o atendimento e o tratamento

This research has aimed the identification of AIDS attendance and treatment Social Representations on professionals that handle HIV serum-positive patients. The sample was composed by 61 professionals who work directly in the AIDS context at the Public Health from Joao Pessoa, PB. Most of them were women (82%) and older than 44 years old (42%). Data have been collected through the Word Free Association Technique, and later analyzed through Tri-Deux-Mots software, interpreted by the factorial correspondence analysis. The factorial correspondence analysis graphic revealed semantics universes associated with the age and professional categories, which was classified into the medical and humanities area. It was observed that the daily practice experience leads the professional to go beyond the suffering issues caused by AIDS, as well as to re-conduct the attendance and treatment towards more subjective aspects of the patient. Different academic background influences the serum-positive representations development, as it is related to the personal daily practices.

A Atitude dos Universitários em Relação ao Profissional de Limpeza Urbana

Aiming at identifying the attitudes of graduate students from both public and private universities in relation to urban cleaning workers (garbage men), this study presents a descriptive field research carried out with 200 graduate students: 100 from a public university and 100 from a private one in Joao Pessoa, PB. Data collection was done by means of attitude, motivation and social desirability scales which were adapted, when it was necessary, for the garbage men occupation and then analyzed through the statistical package SPSS for Windows 15.0, using descriptive and inferential statistics. Issues of great interest to social psychology, such as prejudice, attitude, stereotype and discrimination, as well as their impacts in man-work relation were discussed. The results show that women are more aware of the importance of garbage men occupation for proper public functioning and that there is prejudice in the social relations, that although it is expressed in a subtle way, it still plays a negative role in social relations.

La actitud de los universitarios con relación al profesional de limpieza urbana

Aiming at identifying the attitudes of graduate students from both public and private universities in relation to urban cleaning workers (garbage men), this study presents a descriptive field research carried out with 200 graduate students: 100 from a public university and 100 from a private one in Joao Pessoa, PB. Data collection was done by means of attitude, motivation and social desirability scales which were adapted, when it was necessary, for the garbage men occupation and then analyzed through the statistical package SPSS for Windows 15.0, using descriptive and inferential statistics. Issues of great interest to social psychology, such as prejudice, attitude, stereotype and discrimination, as well as their impacts in man-work relation were discussed. The results show that women are more aware of the importance of garbage men occupation for proper public functioning and that there is prejudice in the social relations, that although it is expressed in a subtle way, it still plays a negative role in social relations.

The attitude of academics in relation to urban cleaning workers

Aiming at identifying the attitudes of graduate students from both public and private universities in relation to urban cleaning workers (garbage men), this study presents a descriptive field research carried out with 200 graduate students: 100 from a public university and 100 from a private one in Joao Pessoa, PB. Data collection was done by means of attitude, motivation and social desirability scales which were adapted, when it was necessary, for the garbage men occupation and then analyzed through the statistical package SPSS for Windows 15.0, using descriptive and inferential statistics. Issues of great interest to social psychology, such as prejudice, attitude, stereotype and discrimination, as well as their impacts in man-work relation were discussed. The results show that women are more aware of the importance of garbage men occupation for proper public functioning and that there is prejudice in the social relations, that although it is expressed in a subtle way, it still plays a negative role in social relations.