title: [Understanding the world as experienced by HIV-positive pregnant women].
abstract: This study aims at understanding how a HIV-infected pregnant woman perceives her corporeality in being-in-the-world bearing another being corroborating with the concepts of body and corporeality. It is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach. HIV-positive pregnant women under pre-natal follow-up took part in the study. Semi-structured interview was carried out to collect the information. The hermeneutic approach was chosen to interpret the collected information. The discourses gave rise to two themes: being in the world while infected with the virus and the concepts of body in the world of HIV-positive pregnant women's concepts of body-in-the-world.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. deby.nh@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Débora Fernandes
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Coelho
authors.forename: Maria da Graça Corso
authors.initials: Mda G
authors.lastname: da Motta
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001828:Body Image; D001938:Brazil; D003469:Culture; D005086:Existentialism; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D019222:Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology