Açúcar no sangue: estado doente na perspectiva da pessoa com diagnóstico biomédico de diabetes mellitus

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the meanings of the disease from the perspective of people with biomedical diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus. To this end, we have adopted the theoretical understanding of Interpretive Anthropology and Ethnographic method. Sixteen people participated in this study with biomedical diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus. Been complied with the ethical principles, such as the approval of the study by the Ethics Committee and signing the informed consent by participants. Study developed in the period of August to October 2014 2015, home visit, through in-depth interviews, participant observation and recorded notes in field journal. Analysis and interpretation were undertaken from the first chapter of the book of Geertz, A Dense Description: For an Interpretive Theory of culture. Of this analysis, we can see a toggle between the sick and not sick, why we as transaxle: Self-perception of a sick state and horizontal axes: meaning of disease and cultural Representation of state patient care. We apprehend that the meanings of Diabetes Mellitus relate to the presence of sugar, blood sugar problem, thick blood and silent disease. The causality of disease is given to external factors as an entity that attacks and splashes, before conditions such as the desire for God, the ageing, the effects of medicines and foodstuffs and the nervous. The state is marked by the body lying sick and medicated characterized by a breeze, bambeza, weakness and sick feeling. The meaning of chronicity relates the constant threats that are able to attack them and produce the sick state. The representations of state care sick point to the allopathic treatment in their own way and capillary glucose dosage, although there are ambiguities as to their benefits, to dissipate the bodily manifestations, away from the entity and regaining health. Religion and popular system are valued for treatment and cure. To give importance to the social and cultural dimension in the perspective of the person with biomedical diagnosis of DM, we understand the imaginative universe within which the meanings of illness and chronicity are determined and guide their practice. Nursing needs to try to understand each other so there is no confusion and communication is minimally understood, which makes it possible to offer context and care from the perspective of integrality.