As representações sociais do tratamento religioso e suas repercussões na qualidade de vida para adeptos da nação Jeje Mahí

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze the social representations of religious treatment and its repercussions on the quality of life for candomblé followers of the Jeje Mahí nation. Exploratory and descriptive study with a mixed approach, based on the theory of social representations. In the first stage, 100 supporters answered forms with sociodemographic data, religious practices, health practices and collection of free evocations to the inducing terms, religious treatment, quality of life, well-being, health and illness. The WHOQOL instruments (Bref and SRPB) and the Duke religiosity scale were also used. In the second stage, 25 supporters participated in the interview. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation coefficient, free evocations using prototypical analysis and interviews, lexical analysis using the IRaMuTeQ software. It was found that age, gender and level of education did not influence quality of life and that the correlation between quality of life, spirituality and religiosity were positive. The Duke scale showed high intrinsic religiosity. In the structural analysis of quality of life, the lexicons health, peace, faith and happiness possibly form part of the central nucleus of the representation, while for well-being, health, peace, happiness and tranquility were more likely to be central. For religious treatment, the terms faith, respect, hierarchy, care, ancestry and ebó were pointed out as likely central elements. Love, despite being in the first periphery, presented characteristics of a central element. The representation of religious treatment for the group has a transcendent dimension, reinforced by the ancestry element, being associated with practical, affective and belief dimensions through the word faith. In the procedural analysis, two axes and four classes were generated: axis 1, entitled religious preparation in different dimensions: human body, health-disease process, behaviors and care and education practices, comprising classes 4 and 1, and 2, denominated candomblé as a space of power and religious and biomedical care, covering classes 2 and 3. The study showed that interventions through religious treatment are linked to several areas of human life, precipitating factors that encourage changes in habits that modify life everyday and spiritual in subjective aspects that affect the quality of life. Representations of religious treatment are expressions of the practical reality of the individuals relationship with the divine and their beliefs. Religious practices are based on a cultural system with a significant connection between religion and social support, which influences others in a relationship involving faith, affection, care and health, in order to promote meaning and purpose to deal with the challenges of illness and death. daily. Considering the multiculturalism present in health environments, it is clear that the principles of transcultural theory can help planning nursing care.