Social relations and social support: the experience of caring for a person with tuberculosis in a rural community

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International Journal of Development Research

Volume: 
09
Article ID: 
17488
4 pages
Research Article

Social relations and social support: the experience of caring for a person with tuberculosis in a rural community

Erika Roméria Formiga de Sousa, Keila Formiga de Castro, Jeane Lima Cavalcante, Karine Nascimento da Silva, Rayanne de Sousa Barbosa, Rosely Leyliane dos Santos, Maria do Socorro Vieria Lopes and Edilma Gomes Rocha Cavalcante

Received 16th August, 2019; Received in revised form 11th September, 2019; Accepted 20th October, 2019; Published online 30th November, 2019

Copyright © 2019, Erika Roméria Formiga de Sousa and. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract: 

The objective is to report the experience of care to a person with tuberculosis in rural areas. The rapporteur was a nurse, linked to the health secretariat of a municipality in the southern region of Ceará. She was encouraged to reflect on the social relation made available to the patient through the writing of a narrative. The reported social support was response to patient vulnerabilities, challenges to stigma and prejudice, mobilization of social actors and health staff in the conduct of supported care, and patient autonomy. The nurse's narrative reveals the complexity of care and seeking social support.

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