Patrício Karina Pavão, Ribeiro Helena, Hoshino Katsumasa, Bocchi Silvia Cristina Mangini
Departamento de Saúde Pública, Faculdade de Medicina, UNESP, Botucatu, SP.
Cien Saude Colet. 2008 Jul-Aug;13(4):1189-98. doi: 10.1590/s1413-81232008000400015.
Many studies point to factors capable of increasing longevity but many questions regarding this subject were still not elucidated. The perceptions of the old aged themselves with respect to factors that contribute to longevity are important, allowing to identify each factor and its interactions with other variables promoting longevity. This article presents the results of an investigation about "the secret of longevity", according to old-aged themselves, analyzed through grounded theory. Thirty old-aged men, former railroad workers, were interviewed in the city of Botucatu (SP). The analysis of their discourse led to the conclusion that the perception of the factors can be grouped around progressively inclusive categories that culminate in the collective representation that longevity depends on the balance between negative life-destroying factors and healthy, life-generating and life-preserving factors. The lack of social and state control over these factors is generating a pessimistic view for the future.
许多研究指出了能够延长寿命的因素，但关于这个主题仍有许多问题尚未阐明。老年人自身对有助于长寿的因素的看法很重要，这有助于识别每个因素及其与其他促进长寿的变量之间的相互作用。本文呈现了一项关于“长寿秘诀”的调查结果，该调查是根据老年人自身的情况，通过扎根理论进行分析的。在博图卡图市（圣保罗州）对30名老年男性、前铁路工人进行了访谈。对他们话语的分析得出结论，对这些因素的认知可以围绕逐渐包容的类别进行分组，最终形成一种集体认知，即长寿取决于破坏生命的负面因素与健康、创造生命和保护生命的因素之间的平衡。社会和国家对这些因素缺乏控制，这让人们对未来产生了悲观的看法。
