Representação Social da Reabilitação para pacientes no contexto da pós-COVID-19

Abstract

This study had the general objective of analyzing the social representations of post-COVID-19 rehabilitation. This is descriptive, exploratory field research, with a qualitative approach, based on the Theory of Social Representations, using structural and procedural approaches. The study was developed in a rehabilitation service that serves patients in the post-COVID-19 rehabilitation process, located in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. 100 subjects aged 18 or over, who developed COVID-19 and were undergoing post-COVID-19 rehabilitation treatment at the multidisciplinary rehabilitation outpatient clinic participating in the study, participated in the study. Data collection occurred through the application of a socioeconomic questionnaire, the technique of free evocation of words to the inductive term “COVID-19 Rehabilitation” and semi-structured interviews. The analysis of the data obtained from the application of the free word evocation technique was carried out through the construction of the four-house chart, instrumented by the EVOC 2005 software. The analysis of the interview data was carried out using the IRAMUTEQ and ALCESTE software, with standard and tri-croisé analyses. In the analysis of the structure of the representation of “post-COVID-19 rehabilitation”, the possible central nucleus was identified as the negative affective-attitudinal element difficult and positive overcoming and returning to normal. These suggest that the post-COVID-19 rehabilitation process generated positive and negative attitudes and feelings towards the readaptation context. Regarding the representational content observed in the interviews, the meanings of rehabilitation were identified, the clinical aspects related to the sequelae, the social and affective aspects that this process brought to people's lives and the treatment interfaces with the post-COVID rehabilitation process. 19. It concludes with the hypothesis that there is no structured social representation of post-COVID-19 rehabilitation, but a new representation in the process of formation, since its composition is defined by the predominance of attitudinal elements in the central nucleus and in the other levels of its structure.