Subjects living with HIV/AIDS infection: a qualitative study in the light of Psychoanalysis

• Grant number: 12/19491-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2012
• End date: November 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Cássia Regina Rodrigues
• Grantee: Letícia Botigeli Baldim
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

It is known that the condition of patients diagnosed with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is physical and emotional weakness, given its vulnerability to the world around them, and that their perception of their health-illness process interferes with the conditions of the treatment. The appropriate approach towards a patient in such a condition requires a process that requires, in addition to creating a lasting personal bond with the team involved in your care, a greater understanding of their mental processes. The Centro de Especialidades Médicas (CEME), located in São Carlos (SP) is an outpatient service which provides, among a wide range of specialties offered, an Infectious Disease Clinic, responsible for the monitoring of patients suffering from AIDS, and that will be the backdrop for the collection of data for this research, which aims to understand the health-disease process of these patients in light of psychoanalysis. The psychoanalytical it will work here as a theoretical and methodological tool for conducting the interviews, as well as material for the reading of the elements produced in encounters with patients. The purpose of the following research will be to determine which psych strategies - defense mechanisms - that patients use to cope with the situation where they are. Should be randomly selected patients from the Clinic of Infectious patrons of the CEME due to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and will be subsequently addressed by semi-structured interviews of open questions. It will be interviewed as much as patients will be needed until the saturation point of information be reached. Data will be collected with registration in a voice recorder and transcribed and all the lines will be treated with the technique of qualitative analysis. We expect to generate additional knowledge to better understand the phenomena experienced by people involved in the health-illness process of AIDS, bringing results to conferences and publishing them in journals.(AU)