REPRESENTATIONS AND CARE PRACTICES WITH A CHRONIC WOUND OF THE INFERIOR MEMBER: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Authors

  • Lucas Pereira de Melo Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo
  • Nello Pereira da Silva Fundação Centro Médico de Campinas
  • Kelly Cristina Lopes da Silva Hospital e Maternidade Galileo
  • Marco Philipe Teles Reis Ponte Universidade Federal do Piauí
  • Dulce Maria Rosa Gualda Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v16i2.20804

Keywords:

Wounds and lesions, Cultural anthropology, Nursing, Traditional medicine.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to interpret the cultural manifestations and representations of care of health-service users with chronic wounds to inferior members. The research is clinic-qualitative and was carried out in February and March 2010. Individual semi-structured interviews were carried out with 8 users of the ambulatory service; the interviews were analysed with the technique of content analysis. The following thematic categories emerged from the study: I can’t wait to get better to get back to work! – impact of the wound on daily life; Folk tell me stuff and I try it! – practices of care with a chronic wound; It’s being irritable! – an explicative model. One may consider that the diverse health problems which become visible in the materiality of the physical body are, equally, permeated with symbolical questions which write themselves across the daily life of their carriers, reaffirming the social character of the health-illness process.

Author Biographies

Lucas Pereira de Melo, Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo

Enfermeiro. Doutorando do Programa Interunidades de Doutoramento em Enfermagem dos campi São Paulo e Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo. Professor Assistente da Faculdade Anhanguera de Campinas, Unidade 3 (FAC 3) e da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUCCAMP).

Nello Pereira da Silva, Fundação Centro Médico de Campinas

Enfermeiro pela FAC 3. Enfermeiro de Centro Cirúrgico da Fundação Centro Médico de Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil.

Kelly Cristina Lopes da Silva, Hospital e Maternidade Galileo

Enfermeira pela FAC 3. Coordenadora de Enfermagem do Centro Cirúrgico e Central de Material e Esterilização do Hospital e Maternidade Galileo, Valinhos, São Paulo, Brasil.

Marco Philipe Teles Reis Ponte, Universidade Federal do Piauí

Graduando em Medicina, pela Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI). Membro do Núcleo de Pesquisas em Plantas Medicinais. Bolsista de Iniciação Científica.

Dulce Maria Rosa Gualda, Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo

Doutora em Enfermagem. Professora Titular do Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-infantil e Psiquiátrica da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo.

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Published

2011-06-30

How to Cite

Melo, L. P. de, Silva, N. P. da, Silva, K. C. L. da, Ponte, M. P. T. R., & Gualda, D. M. R. (2011). REPRESENTATIONS AND CARE PRACTICES WITH A CHRONIC WOUND OF THE INFERIOR MEMBER: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. Cogitare Enfermagem, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v16i2.20804

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2011)

Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

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