Aspectos da Motivação para o Trabalho Voluntário com Doentes Oncológicos:

um Estudo Colaborativo entre Brasil e Portugal

Camila B. de Souza¹, Maria do Rosário N. Bacalhau², Maria de Jesus Moura²

José Henrique Volpi³, Sónia Marques³, & Maria Rosalina G. Rodrigues³

¹ Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, Brasil, Setor de Oncologia Ginecológica - UNIFESP-EPM

² Instituto Português de Oncologia - Lisboa, Portugal

³ Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, Brasil

 

RESUMO: Brasil e Portugal, por razões históricas e de fenômenos recentes de imigração compartilham de uma cultura e de uma língua similares. O trabalho dos voluntários é uma atividade muito importante como suporte social de pacientes oncológicos e necessita uma avaliação mais profissional e sistemática na formação de seus grupos. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi identificar a estrutura motivacional dos voluntários que atendem aos pacientes com câncer e comparar diferenças e situações similares nos dois países.

Os participantes foram 29 voluntárias de "Liga Portuguesa contra o Cancro" e 21 voluntárias "Rede Feminina de Combate ao Câncer". A idade média foi em Portugal 59,2 (DP=8,79), no Brasil e a 47,09 (DP=11,0). Foi utilizado o Inventário Funções de Voluntariado (VFI) desenvolvido por Snyder et al., (1998), que propõe seis categorias para personalidade motivacional para o trabalho voluntário. Os resultados foram analisados pelo software estatístico SPSS, usando o t-Estudante. Os resultados mostraram que apesar da língua similar há diferenças significativas entre voluntárias brasileiras e portuguesas. As diferenças não são no processo motivational mas são no grau de importância deste processo.

Palavras chave: Suporte social, Trabalho voluntário, Voluntariado.

 

An Aspect of Volunteer’s Motivation that Attends Cancer Patients:

Collaborative Study between Portugal and Brazil

ABSTRACT: Brazil and Portugal, for reasons of history and immigration, share a similar culture and language. This is a inter cultural research for to compare a specific motivational processes and psychological functions involved in volunteer work. The work of volunteers is also a very important activity in the social support of cancer patients and needs further evaluation in both of countries. The objective of this research was to identify the structure of volunteers' motivation that attends to cancer patients and to compare differences and similar situations.

Participants were 29 female volunteers from "Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro" and 21 female volunteers from "Rede Feminina de Combate so Cancer" in Brazil. The mean age was to Portugal 59.2y (SD=8.79), and 47.09 y (SD=11.0). The authors used the Volunteer Function Inventory (VFI) developed by Snyder et al., 1998, which proposes six personality/motivational categories for volunteer work. The results were analyzed by SPSS statistic software, using the t-Student. The results showed that despite the similar language there are significant differences between Brazilian volunteers and Portuguese volunteers. The differences are not in motivational process but are in degree of these processes.

Key words: Social support, Volunteer work, Volunteerism.

 

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