Percepção das Mães Quanto à sexualidade de seu Filho Adolescente com Síndrome de Down / Perception of Mothers Who Have Children with Down Syndrome Regarding their Teenage Child’s Sexuality
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Abstract
Objetivo: Identificar o conhecimento e a percepção das mães quanto à sexualidade de seu filho, portador da Síndrome de Down, nas cidades do Sul de Minas Gerais. Materiais e métodos: Estudo de abordagem qualitativa do tipo descritivo, exploratório e transversal. A amostra foi constituída de 20 participantes, que foram escolhidos pela amostragem bola de neve. Para tanto, foi necessário ampliar para as cidades ao redor de Itajubá, são elas: Delfim Moreira, Paraisópolis, Piranguinho e Santa Rita do Sapucaí. Foi utilizado o método do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo (DSC), iniciando através da identificação das Expressões Chaves (ECH) onde revelaram as essências do depoimento e a partir delas foram formuladas as Ideias Centrais (IC), que revelaram e descreveram o sentido de cada um dos discursos analisados. Resultados: A maior parte das mães está consciente da sexualidade de seu filho adolescente, portador de Síndrome de Down, porém não percebem no cotidiano. A segunda maior parte das mães não considera a sexualidade, assim seus filhos são reprimidos e não recebem orientação sexual apropriada. Conclusão: Oportunizou uma nova visão de atendimento adequado a elas e consequentemente melhor compreensão das mesmas para com seu filho.
Palavras-chave: Adolescentes, Sexualidade, Síndrome de Down.
ABSTRACT
Objective: Identify the knowledge and awareness of mothers who have children with Down syndrome about the sexuality of their children in cities of southern Minas Gerais. Material and methods: Qualitative study, which uses a descriptive, exploratory and transversal methodology. The sample consisted of 20 participants who were chosen by the snowball sampling. Thereby, it was necessary to expand the study to others cities around Itajubá, such as Delfim Moreira, Paraisópolis, Piranguinho, and Santa Rita do Sapucaí. The Collective Subject Discourse (CSD) was the method used, starting with the identification of the Key Expressions (KE) which revealed the essence of the testimony. By these means, the Central Ideas (CI) were formulated and these central ideas revealed and described the meaning of each analyzed speech. Results: The majority of mothers are aware of the sexuality of their teenage child with Down syndrome, but they do not notice it in day-to-day life. Yet, some of the mothers do not consider sexuality; so, their children are repressed and do not receive appropriate sexual orientation. Conclusion: This new vision provides an opportunity to adequate a counseling treatment to the mothers changing, consequently, the way they understand their children.
Keywords: Teenage, Sexuality, Down Syndrome.
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