Abstract

ESPITIA CRUZ, Sonia Esperanza  and  RINCON OSORIO, Fanny. Perceptions and beliefs in people that suffered an acute coronary episode. av.enferm. [online]. 2011, vol.29, n.2, pp.307-318. ISSN 0121-4500.

Using a qualitative and interpretative approach, the perceptions and beliefs related to lifestyle choices of a group of sufferers of acute myocardial infarctions are analyzed and described. The study tries to find, from the subject itself, the situations that make him or her pick up a habit. The sample was constituted by the information given by seven users of the health services of the National University, who were approached at two different moments with non-structured interviews, justified by the principle of saturation. From the analysis, it was possible to build six categories and subcategories that allowed for a description of the studied incident. Amongst these categories, are: identity, impact of the experience, taste, elements behind change, human relationships and health strategies. These categories were later analyzed through the lens of four existential elements, presented by the phenomenological theory: experienced body, experienced space, experienced period and experienced human relationships. The findings allows for advances in the comprehension of the Self, to which is recommended a change of habits, with a renewed vision of the topic. As such, the construction and retrieval of the cultural knowledge of the health-disease process from the point of view of those same social subjects is attempted. This also brings the reanalysis, from different standpoints, of several health promotion and disease prevention approaches that provide better results.

Keywords : coronary disease; risk factors; self care.

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