Banca de DEFESA: BARBARA CECILIA LIMA DA SILVA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : BARBARA CECILIA LIMA DA SILVA
DATE: 23/08/2021
TIME: 13:00
LOCAL: Plataforma Google Meet
TITLE:

Living with chronic illness in a university context: challenges in emerging adulthood

KEY WORDS:

Emerging adulthood. University students. Chronic illness.

PAGES: 70
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUBÁREA: Psicologia do Desenvolvimento Humano
SUMMARY:

Emerging adulthood is characterized as a transitional stage between adolescence and adulthood, which includes experimenting social roles and building life projects. At this stage of development, university experience can be an opportunity for growth and maturation in the intellectual sphere and in interpersonal relationships. However, when diagnosed with a chronic disease, young university students deal with biopsychosocial changes that make it difficult for them to adapt to academic requirements. Therefore, the objective of this qualitative research is to understand the impact of illness on the university life of emerging adults. For this, eight undergraduate students from a public university in the state of Rio de Janeiro, aged between 18 and 25 years and diagnosed with chronic non-communicable diseases, were invited to participate in a focus group carried out online. Students who accepted to participate in the study signed a consent form and answered individually, questionnaires to collect sociodemographic and medical-clinical data. The meetings, with three and five participants each, had a previously elaborated script, composed of guiding questions and dynamic acts that sought to investigate how the participants reconciled the university demands and care for their own health. The results were calculated using the descriptive phenomenological method. Four main thematic axes were highlighted: (1) self-care strategy: keeping the disease under control, (2) challenges of reconciling academic demands and health needs, (3) importance of social and institutional support: between the perceived and the desired and finally, (4) the potential of spaces for exchange and discussion about living with chronic diseases: support and dissemination. The groups allowed university students to express their emotions, thoughts and opinions about living with a chronic disease at the university, therefore, relevant aspects were learned to understand the unique needs and characteristics of this public. It is concluded that this knowledge is important to help prepare programs and/or guidance aimed at the well-being of university students who experience different types of chronic diseases.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2077610 - LILIAN MARIA BORGES GONZALEZ
Interna - 1893672 - LUCIENE DE FATIMA ROCINHOLI
Externa ao Programa - 1770453 - CARLA CRISTINE VICENTE
Externa à Instituição - SILVIA RENATA MAGALHÃES LORDELLO BORBA SANTOS - UnB