Ressignificação existencial do pretérito e longevidade humana

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Psychosocial impact on anophthalmic patients wearing ocular prosthesis

The aim of this study was to assess the improvement in psychosocial awareness of anophthalmic patients wearing ocular prostheses and its relationship with demographic characteristics, factors of loss/treatment, social activity, and relationship between professional and patient. Surveys including a form for evaluation of psychosocial pattern were conducted with 40 anophthalmic patients rehabilitated with ocular prosthesis at the Center of Oral Oncology in the authors' dental school from January 1998 to November 2010. The improvement in psychosocial awareness was assessed by comparing the perception of some feelings reported in the period of eye loss and currently. Wilcoxon tests were applied for comparison of patients' perception between the periods. χ2 tests were used to assess the relationship between the improvement in psychosocial awareness and the variables of the study. In addition, the logistic regression model measured this relationship with the measure of odds ratio. The feelings of shame, shyness, preoccupation with hiding it, sadness, insecurity and fear were significant for improvement in psychosocial awareness. It was concluded that the anophthalmic patients wearing an ocular prosthesis has significant improvement in psychosocial awareness after rehabilitation. © 2012 International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

Perda e luto: Vivências de mulheres que interromperam a gestação por malformação fetal letal

The scope of this study was to investigate the grieving experiences of women who terminated pregnancies under judicial authorization, due to life-incompatible fetal malformation. Ten women attended in the Fetal Medicine Department of Botucatu Clinical Hospital participated in the study. Data collection was conducted by means of semi-structured interviews forty days after termination. The interviews were recorded and transcribed in full, with the data analyzed from the thematic content analysis perspective. The results revealed that the mothers sought explanations and meanings for the loss, with religious responses and self-blame being very frequent. The reports were marked by feelings of sadness, longing and sensations of emptiness due to the loss of the child, revealing the need of the mothers to dwell on the issue. The mothers were and continued to be linked to their children; the termination of the pregnancy, although being a choice to minimize the pain of an inevitable loss, did not spare the women from experiences of great suffering. The study includes input for the discussion and planning of health approaches and care for women who terminate their pregnancy due to lethal fetal malformation, by means of judicial authorization.

Repercussões emocionais das atividades físicas em academias para praticantes

Pós-graduação em Ciências da Motricidade - IBRC

Separação de virus de importância fitopatológica em citros: CTV e CSDaV através de citometria de fluxo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Cuidado de si e a educação matemática: perspectivas, reflexões e práticas de atores sociais (1925-1945)

Pós-graduação em Educação Matemática - IGCE

Entre a chuva e o estio ou como narrar a dor na infância

Todos sabemos, por observação ou por própria experiência, que é um mito considerar a infância como um tempo de plena harmonia, como se a felicidade fosse condição obrigatória no cotidiano dos pequenos; todos sabemos quão intensa pode ser a dor no horizonte restrito da dependência. Neste artigo, pretende-se traçar um paralelo entre o modo como duas crianças, diferentes, mas em certo sentido bem próximas, uma menina e um menino, vivenciam e enfrentam a experiência da morte. A análise focará o comportamento dos narradores em “Manuela em dia de chuva”, de Autran Dourado, e “Campo geral”, de Guimarães Rosa, em especial no momento em que se apresenta o confronto com a perda irreparável do irmão, que protegia e orientava. Experiência da dor, fonte de aprendizado, passagem da infância à maturidade.Tristeza e alento, formas de narrar a solidão e o desamparo, mas também de celebrar, no Mutum ou na casa da família, a força da vida, que continua.

Machado de Assis cronista. A importância do contexto histórico para a análise das crônicas machadianas

Este artigo tem como objetivo ressaltar a importância da leitura de periódicos para a exata compreensão das crônicas escritas por Machado de Assis ao longo de quarenta anos de produção jornalística. Foram tomadas como exemplo duas Balas de Estalo escritas para o jornal carioca Gazeta de Notícias em 1885: no primeiro caso, um comentário a respeito da morte de Victor Hugo; no segundo caso, uma análise da tristeza do Rio de Janeiro, que teria perdido o cantor italiano Tamagno. Nos dois casos, a leitura dos jornais se revela fundamental para a análise das crônicas.

As estratégias de coping e o impacto sofrido pela família quando um dos seus está em tratamento contra o câncer

The aim of the present study was to analyze the impact suffered by 40 people when discovering that one of their family members was diagnosed with cancer, to analyze their coping strategies and expectations towards the patient’s illness and future. The study made use of the Coping Strategies Inventory by Folkman and Lazarus. Results show that most of the patients’ caregivers are their married children, with an average age of 45.7 (dp=12.67), and gainfully employed. These family members reported the negative impact of the diagnosis, with the predominant feelings of sadness and fear of loss, even though they had a positive perspective about the future, expecting the patient’s recovery. As to the functional coping strategies, the most used were the resolution of problems, followed by social support; the least used was positive revaluation. As to the dysfunctional strategies, the most used ones were escape and avoidance and the least used was taking the responsibility for the illness. Conclusions are that despite suffering with the negative impact of the disease, the family members are optimistic about the patient’s future and seek to use strategies that solve the problem effectively, without blaming themselves for the patient’s illness.

Vivenciar a doença: um estudo com portadores de doença renal crônica

Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva - FMB

Copa do mundo de futebol de 1950: critérios de noticiabilidade e análise de conteúdo da cobertura realizada pelo jornalismo de revista brasileiro

Pós-graduação em Comunicação - FAAC