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Revista de Enfermagem Referência
Print version ISSN 0874-0283On-line version ISSN 2182-2883
Abstract
SILVA, Elenir Pereira da et al. Older people’s social representations of their social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2022, vol.serVI, n.1, suppl.1, e21075. Epub Oct 11, 2022. ISSN 0874-0283. https://doi.org/10.12707/rv21075.
Background:
Isolation is adopted worldwide during the different phases of the pandemic in an attempt to flatten the contagion curve and protect vulnerable groups.
Objective:
To discuss the social representations of older people about their social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methodology:
Qualitative research based on the structural approach of social representations. 117 elderly people who sought immunization for influenza in a Brazilian Basic Health Unit in 2020 participated. Sociodemographic data and evocation technique were collected. Prototypical analysis was carried out after lexicographic, semantic reconciliation and co-occurrence testing in the EVOC and Iramuteq software.
Results:
The representations were aimed at “distancing” and anchored in the justifications “necessary-safe, make-possible, stay-home, limit-exit, danger-disease and prevention” that reflected the process of building social representations.
Conclusion:
The representations were objectified by distancing and anchored in the expressed justifications necessary-safe, make-possible, stay-at-home, limit-out, danger-disease and prevention, which reflected the process of construction of representations in a knowable perspective.
Keywords : social isolation; coronavirus; health services for the aged; aging; community health nursing; psychology social.