Oliveira Denize Cristina de, Ribeiro Vanessa Bittencourt, Machado Yndira Ita, Marques Sergio Correa, Oliveira Jessica Grativol Aguiar Dias de, Cecílio Hellen Polliana, Stefaisk Renata Lacerda Marques, Domingues Juliana Pereira
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul. Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
Rev Bras Enferm. 2025 Mar 17;78Suppl 2(Suppl 2):e20240120. doi: 10.1590/0034-7167-2024-0120. eCollection 2025.
to analyze the social representations of COVID-19 among residents of a vulnerable community in Rio de Janeiro, to provide insights into healthcare and nursing practices.
we conducted a mixed-methods study based on the Social Representations Theory (SRT), employing a structural approach. The study was performed with 120 residents from the Rocinha community in Rio de Janeiro. We collected data through a sociodemographic questionnaire and analyzed it using descriptive statistics. Free word associations with the prompt term "COVID-19" were collected and submitted to prototypical and similarity analyses.
The central core of the social representation of COVID-19 was found to comprise the elements "death", "fear", "loss", "disease", and "suffering". The similarity graph reinforced the centrality of "death" and "fear" in these representations.
COVID-19's social representation in this population centered around negative meanings, highlighting their struggle with the disease and the pandemic's economic impact on vulnerable groups.
分析里约热内卢一个弱势社区居民对新冠病毒的社会认知，为医疗保健和护理实践提供见解。
我们基于社会认知理论（SRT）进行了一项混合方法研究，采用结构化方法。该研究对里约热内卢罗西尼亚社区的120名居民进行。我们通过社会人口学调查问卷收集数据，并使用描述性统计进行分析。收集了与提示词“新冠病毒”相关的自由联想词，并进行原型分析和相似性分析。
发现新冠病毒社会认知的核心要素包括“死亡”“恐惧”“损失”“疾病”和“痛苦”。相似性图强化了“死亡”和“恐惧”在这些认知中的核心地位。
该人群中新冠病毒的社会认知以负面意义为中心，突出了他们与疾病的斗争以及疫情对弱势群体的经济影响。
