Psychological Suffering, Medicalization and Women: Contributions in the Field of Public Health
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2021.64035Palavras-chave:
psychological suffering, medicalization, institutional ethnographyResumo
In recent years we have seen a growing psychological suffering in women attended in primary health care in developing countries. This paper aims to analyze psychological suffering in a small city in northeastern Brazil and its relationship with medicalization. We applied 202 SRQ-20 questionnaires in 3 Basic Health Units in the first research step, which were analyzed with statistical support. In the second step, four women were interviewed in the primary health care service and the data were analyzed from Institutional Ethnography perspective. The results demonstrated a high number of primary health care users in psychological suffering (47.02%). The data also points to a significant prevalence of women in psychological suffering, the use of medicines and the struggles in dealing with the difficulties of everyday life. The medicalization of psychological suffering appeared several times in this study through the invisibility of these sufferings under the blanket of biomedical and medicalizing discourse. Those facts can affect contemporary women and the contradictions of being a woman in a capitalist and patriarchal society.Publicado
Como Citar
Edição
Seção
Licença
DIREITOS AUTORAIS:
Os trabalhos publicados no espaço virtual da revista Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia serão automaticamente cedidos, ficando os seus direitos autorais reservados à revista Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia e a sua reprodução total ou parcial (mais de 500 palavras do texto original) deve ser solicitada por escrito ao Editor.
A Revista Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia é licenciada sob uma Licença Creative Commons Atribuição-NãoComercial 3.0 Não Adaptada.
Permissões além do escopo dessa licença podem estar disponível em http://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/revispsi/.