Significados e metáforas da covid-19 na experiência de homens adultos que tiveram a doença / Significados y metáforas del covid-19 en la experiencia de los hombres adultos que han tenido la enfermedad / Meanings and metaphors of covid-19 in the experience of adult men who have had the disease
Sousa, Anderson Reis de; Cerqueira, Sheila Santa Barbara; Santana, Thiago da Silva; Suto, Cleuma Sueli Santos; Aparício, Elena Casado; Carvalho, Evanilda Souza de Santana.
Rev. baiana enferm
; 36: e43414, 2022. graf
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in Portuguese
| LILACS, BDENF - nursing (Brazil) | ID: biblio-1407234
Objective:
To understand the meanings and metaphors of Covid-19 in the experience of men who have had the disease.Method:
Qualitative study, conducted in a virtual environment involving 75 adult men, living in Brazil, Covid-19 survivors, recruited in the social networks Facebook® and Instagram®. Data were collected by responding to an instrument made available on Google Forms®. The data were subjected to lexical and thematic analysis and interpreted in the light of the Socio Anthropology of illness.Results:
three categories emerged from the thematic content Perception of vulnerability to death; The pains of the symptoms of illness and isolation; and Meanings attributed to the illness and getting sick.Conclusion:
Men elaborate metaphors of Covid-19 as an evil that surprises them, disrupts their lives, and isolates and positions them. They put it as a dangerous subject in the way that discrimination causes more suffering than clinical manifestations.
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