title: [Social representations of health education in a time of AIDS].
abstract: This is a qualitative and descriptive study, which aimed at identifying and analyzing social representations of health education to HIV patients among health professionals. The setting included three healthcare DST/HIV/AIDS services in Belém-PA, Brazil, and 37 health professionals participated in the study. Data collection was conducted in 2012-2013 on the basis of in-depth interviews and analysis was made on Alceste 4.0 software. Final results indicated that health education can be comprehended in light of categories: educational action; sine qua non: education and training at work, and unit structure; teaching-learning process. Conclusions show that social representations are set as guidance-information for precaution-prevention and that they come forth along continuous and emerging action flow, bringing about permanent health education to ensure healthcare services in full.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Comunitária, Escola de Enfermagem Magalhães Barata, Universidade do Estado do Pará, Belém, PA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Teixeira
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fundamentos de Enfermagem, Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Denize Cristina
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012938:Social Perception