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1096/2010 - Care and Chronic Disease: Family Caregiver´s Vision in Northeast Brazil
Cuidado e doença crônica: visão do cuidador familiar no Nordeste brasileiro

Author:

• Juliana Maria de Sousa Pinto - Pinto, JMS - Salamanca, Salamanca - Univerdidade de Salamanca - <jumsp@hotmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Marilyn K. Nations - Nations, Marilyn Kay - Universidade de Fortaleza - <nations@unifor.br>

Thematic Area:

Ciências Sociais

Abstract:

Care-taking causes stress in everyday family dynamics leading to physical, mental and emotional complications in caregivers and spouses´ loss of liberty and/or overload. Between March and November 2006, this anthropological research examined family care-taking in the context of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Employing ethnographic interviews, illness narratives and participant-observation, the objective was to describe families´ reorganization and coexistence with the disease experience and evolution, caregivers’ perceptions about patients´ difficulties and limitations experienced and strategies employed to confront their illness. Six low-income family caregivers, living on poor, urban neighborhood on the periphery of the capital city, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, participated in the study. From the Content Analysis, emerged the categories: “sharing the suffering” and “attitudes and behaviors perceived and experienced by caregivers.” In-depth narratives revealed significant affection between patients and their family caregivers. Despite poverty, structural violence, unemployment, social prejudice and low salaries endemic in the Northeast of Brazil, the caregivers discovered effective ways to cope with chronicity besides creating strategies to diminish suffering caused by the disease.

Keywords:

care family chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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Pinto, JMS, Nations, Marilyn Kay. Care and Chronic Disease: Family Caregiver´s Vision in Northeast Brazil. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2011/Mar). [Citado em 28/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/care-and-chronic-disease-family-caregiveracutes-vision-in-northeast-brazil/6935?id=6935&id=6935



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