出版社：Grupo de Pesquisa Metodologias em Ensino e Aprendizagem em Ciências
摘要：Objective: To analyze the social representations of nursing students about cervical cancer, identify, understand and describe the contents and structure of the social representation of nursing students. Objective: To analyze the representational structure of nursing students about cervical cancer. Methodology: qualitative study based on the Theory of Social Representations, in its structural approach, carried out with 57 students from the 1st to the 6th semester of the Nursing course at the State University of Southwest Bahia, Jequié-Ba campus. Data collected through a questionnaire of free evocations to the inducing term cervical cancer, through a form produced on the google forms platform and analyzed using the four-place quadrant technique, aided by the Ensemble software of Programs Permettant l'analyse des Evocations 2005 and by similarity analysis. Results: They evidenced a representational structure of nursing students about cervical cancer consisting of three dimensions: individual, social and imagery, which were managed by a central nucleus formed by the cognems of Pap smears, prevention and treatment. The dimensions and the central core of this representational structure demonstrate the knowledge socially elaborated by the participants. Conclusion: The representational structure presents a possible demonstration of the knowledge of future nursing professionals, opening space for the creation of collaborative practices that will further contribute to their development inside and outside the institution, addressing the importance of women's health, cancer control and prevention of the cervix and other care, where the nurse has fundamental collaboration.
