Nível de informação e percepção sobre HIV/AIDS de mulheres infectadas em tratamento no Hospital Universitário Lauro Wanderley (HULW)

Abstract

In the history of humanity, the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, known as AIDS, has present every day in much of the world's population. Thus, understanding the knowledge and information about the disease is of paramount importance for prevention and treatment of disease. To assess the level of information and perception about AIDS of women infected in treatment at Hospital Universitário Lauro Wanderley (HULW) of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). This research is a descriptive cross-sectional design and quantitative approach, participated in the study 79 women with HIV/AIDS indexed in specialized care system of HULW of the UFPB. Data were collected from early November to late December 2013, as of 08:00 am to 12:00 pm. The women answered a questionnaire on medical history with personal data, descriptive characteristics and sociodemographic; scale of the Brazil Economic Classification Criteria for evaluation of socioeconomic status; questionnaire and knowledge about HIV/AIDS to assess the level of information rises disease, the questionnaire consists of fifteen questions relating to AIDS organized in domains: concept, transmission, prevention, vulnerability and treatment, which have an answer the alternatives in true, false or not know. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 16.0 software using descriptive statistics with absolute and relative frequency. It was observed that more than half of women have low socioeconomic status (88.6%) and were single (38.0%). Regarding the level of information about HIV/AIDS in all domains of the questionnaire, women had higher levels of correct responses (≥ 69.6%), except in issues fifteen (27.8%) and two (46.8%) of domain concept and treatment, respectively. Most women present a high level of knowledge even in adverse conditions, such as low socioeconomic status. The domain that deals with the prevention aspects proved to be the best in number of correct answers by women, a fact which occurs by dissemination of this information in HULW and other public bodies. Research of this nature is of paramount importance so that public policies are developed with a view to meet these women with HIV/AIDS.