Ser-adolescente que tem HIV/AIDS em seu cotidiano terapêutico: perspectivas para o cuidado de enfermagem

Abstract

Initial Considerations: The infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is characterized by their chronic condition in need of clinical and therapeutic standing. In this context, there are adolescents who have HIV/AIDS, living with this condition. Objective: To understand the routine treatment of adolescents who have HIV/AIDS. Method: Qualitative research with a phenomenological approach, based on Martin Heidegger‟s theoretical and methodological frameworks. After approval by the Ethics Committee of the institution, phenomenological interviews were conducted with 16 adolescents who knew their diagnosis and were assisted in a reference hospital, the University Hospital of Santa Maria/RS/Brazil. It was held from December 2009 to May 2010. Results: Through comprehensive analysis, teenagers show an ordinary lifestyle. Their daily activities include going to school, partying, playing video games, chat with friends, the difference is to have the virus and having to take medication, taking care of oneself so the disease doesn‟t progress. Oneself feeds well and exercise. When pregnant, they take medicine because of the baby. And, when mother, takes her child to medical appointments. Illness is known only by oneself family, because other people can be biased. The family, especially one‟s mother, helps to treat and talk to one about issues of adolescence. In the interpretative analysis, it‟s shown in everyday life. In their relationships at school, friends and party presents oneself as being-with-the-other, where there is a share-with attendance in their ways of being-in-the-world permeated by the hype and the impersonality. This teen remains in occupation with the syndrome, and mood of fear emerges from experience and life experiences with discrimination to people who have AIDS, these ways of existing stem from this facticity. Solitudes presents itself in their everyday life somehow, because, most of the time, there‟s a need for a family member to help them taking medicine and talking about it. Final Considerations: The nurses and the health team are committed to provide spaces for adolescents, because they have needs that are inherent from living this phase, added to their serological status. Oenself experiences in their daily therapeutic issues involving the facticity of the disease, but also shows up in one‟s existence beyond the disease. From the knowing look, it emerges the possibility of nursing care guided by the dialogue not only with the teen in an authentic way, but also with his family. Mediating the interaction of one with another, you can make the teenage protagonist of his permanent care.