title: Social representations of citizenship by inpatients: implications for hospital care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  examine the social representations of citizenship by inpatients receiving hospital care.
  
  
  METHODS
  qualitative approach, using the Theory of Social Representations as a framework, with 31 inpatients in the internal medicine sector of a public university hospital. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, whose data were submitted to the Alceste program, with application of lexical analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  patients understand their rights, and citizenship in the care process is understood based on the right to health, to receive good care from a technical and human standpoint.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  being well treated as a person and the provision of technical-procedural care are rights of patients; the absence of one or the other implies, therefore, lack of respect for their citizenship.
authors: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Departamento de Enfermagem Fundamental. Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brasil.
authors: Flávia Pacheco de
authors: FP
authors: Araújo
authors: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Departamento de Enfermagem Fundamental. Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brasil.
authors: Marta
authors: M
authors: Sauthier
authors: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Departamento de Enfermagem Fundamental. Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brasil.
authors: Márcia de Assunção
authors: Mde A
authors: Ferreira
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D028701:Patient Rights; D012938:Social Perception; D055815:Young Adult