Redescobrindo o viver: sentidos atribuídos por adolescentes à experiência do diagnóstico de HIV/AIDS

Abstract

Adolescence is a period characterized by continuous changes, at level physical and social, that generate implications in construction of identity, in the actions of the individual and the form to see the world, a period also marked by the adoption of risky behavior and vulnerability experience, such as early contact and unprepared manner with sexuality, resulting in many situations the diagnosis of STDs / AIDS. The experience of living the diagnosis of HIV / AIDS with adolescents is a topic of extreme importance today, in view of, the state of Amazonas showed a rapid growth in recent years. Before the diagnosis, unveil the being-in-world-with-teen with AIDS means entering their vulnerabilities and understand the various dimensions present therein. That way, this master dissertation linked to the Postgraduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Amazonas has aimed at understanding in the light of existential-phenomenology, the meanings attributed by adolescents to experience the diagnosis of HIV / AIDS, the meaning in his speeches. To carry out this study we used the qualitative bias in research and how the method Phenomenological of Research in Psychology, understanding that in this manner, from their lived world, would come the understanding of how the participants lived the searched experience. From the speeches were seized Meanings Units that gave the following Analysis Categories: 1. The experience of the diagnosis of HIV / AIDS and their peculiarities; 2. Timeliness and diagnosis of HIV / AIDS; 3. Be-with-the-other and adolescents living with HIV / AIDS; and 4. The affection present on the living of diagnosis. The categories served to understand the existential these adolescents before the diagnosis of HIV / AIDS, providing a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon "be-teen-living-with-thediagnosis- of-HIV / AIDS". The study revealed that the experience of the diagnosis of HIV / AIDS is meant as a momment of great impact and generator of sharp changes in various areas of life: personal, family and social. Showing here the experiences of diagnosis, early symptoms, side effects of medication, emotional and social conflicts, preconception, pain in communicating of diagnosis, outlook and concern for the future, but with overcoming possibilities