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J Child Health Care
January 2025
School of Nursing, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
The aim of this study was to understand the family perception and emotional impacts on caregivers of children with chronic conditions who remained hospitalized in intensive care units for an extended period. A qualitative, descriptive-exploratory study, grounded in symbolic interactionism, was conducted with 10 primary caregivers of children with long-term experience in a Brazilian intensive care unit. Interviews were conducted, either remotely or in person, and were analyzed using thematic content analysis supplemented by lexical analysis.
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January 2025
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
This study analyzes the social representations of healthcare for deaf individuals by healthcare professionals. To this end, a qualitative study was conducted, applying the Theory of Social Representations in its procedural approach. In-depth semistructured interviews were conducted with nurses, nursing technicians, physical therapists, and physicians from a health facility in Porto Velho, Rondônia State, Brazil.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDementia (London)
January 2025
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
Using a theoretical framework that underscores the social dimension of meaning-making processes, this study delved into the social representations of dementia in the Italian context and the personal meanings expressed by three distinct groups of participants. The study involved ninety-two episodic interviews with people living with dementia and those who had provided care as professionals or informal caregivers. The collected data underwent various types of analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBehav Sci (Basel)
January 2025
School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China.
Words are the basic units of language and vital for comprehending the language system. Lexical processing research has always focused on either conceptual or affective word meaning. Previous studies have indirectly compared the conceptual and affective meanings of words.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper examines the geopolitical implications of knowledge production in psychology through two studies that respond to the growing body of work on the 'Decolonisation of Knowledge' and the 'Decolonisation of Psychology' over the past two decades. By adopting a constructivist approach, particularly through the lens of Social Representation Theory (SRT), these studies explore the ways in which geopolitical contexts shape decolonial activism within psychological and scientific discourse. The first study sheds light on the lexical divergences in the construction of knowledge within the domains of psychology.
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