Social representations of the quality of life of the young people living with HIV.

Objectives: to analyze the social representations of the quality of life of the young people living with HIV.

Methods: qualitative survey, based on the Social Representations Theory, with 24 young people living with HIV, monitored in specialized services in Rio de Janeiro, through semi-structured interviews, and the analysis supported by the software IRAMUTEQ.

Results: multidimensionality of the quality of life was observed unfolding the implications of living with HIV/aids concerning the familiar and social support network, time of diagnosis, healthcare services, antiretroviral therapy, and prejudice expressions.

Quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS: temporal, socio-demographic and perceived health relationship.

Objective: to analyze the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS and its relationship with sociodemographic variables, health satisfaction and time since diagnosis.

Method: quantitative, cross-sectional study with a sample of 100 HIV positive people monitored in a specialized service in southeastern Brazil. Sociodemographic and health forms were applied, followed by the WHOQOL-HIV BREF, a short form instrument validated to evaluate the quality of life.

[Quality of life and AIDS from the perspective of persons living with HIV: a preliminary contribution by the structural approach to social representations].

This descriptive qualitative study had the following objectives: identify the content and structure of social representations of quality of life and AIDS for persons living with the disease and analyze the structural relations between such representations. The sample included 103 persons with HIV in a municipality (county) in northern Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. The methodology used free and hierarchical recall of words for the inductive terms "AIDS" and "quality of life for persons with AIDS", with analysis by the EVOC software.

Quality of life and people living with AIDS: relationship with sociodemographic and health aspects.

Objective: to analyze the relationship of sociodemographic and health dimensions with the quality of life of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus.

Method: descriptive and quantitative study. The subjects were 131 seropositive people treated in a specialized center of the Norte-Fluminense municipality, Brazil.

Persons living with AIDS in nurses' social representations: analysis of central, contranormative and attitudinal elements.

Objectives: to describe and analyze the centrality, the mute zone and the attitudes expressed in nurses' social representations of people with Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

Method: the subjects were 30 nurses from a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro. The data was collected using a Likert scale.

[Health education as a strategy to ensure the human being's dignity].

Unlabelled: It is a theoretical, reflexive study linked to the institutional research project named "Nursing Social Responsibility: from the meaning of person to bioethical paradigms."

Objective: Discussing health education as a strategy to ensure the human being's dignity.

Methodology: It was based on a qualitative approach, in view of the identification and analysis of the theoretical elements obtained in the bibliographic surveys for the foundations of the study constituted as one of the preliminary aspects of the research.