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Oliveira, A., Correia, F. & Sá, C. (2015). Patients with cancer: Social representations in nursing . In B. Savaneli, G. Senatore, M. Cilento (Ed.), Book of Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences. (pp. 89-96). Roma: MCSER Publishing.

A. G. Oliveira et al.,  "Patients with cancer: Social representations in nursing ", in Book of Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on Humanities and Social Sciences, B. Savaneli, G. Senatore, M. Cilento, Ed., Roma, MCSER Publishing, 2015, vol. 1, pp. 89-96

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	author = "Oliveira, A. and Correia, F. and Sá, C.",
	title = "Patients with cancer: Social representations in nursing ",
	booktitle = "Book of Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences",
	year = "2015",
	editor = "B. Savaneli, G. Senatore, M. Cilento",
	volume = "1",
	number = "",
	series = "",
	doi = "10.5901/ichss-2015-P1",
	pages = "89-96",
	publisher = "MCSER Publishing",
	address = "Roma",
	organization = "MCSER-Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research"
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Patients with cancer: Social representations in nursing 
T2  - Book of Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences
VL  - 1
AU  - Oliveira, A.
AU  - Correia, F.
AU  - Sá, C.
PY  - 2015
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DO  - 10.5901/ichss-2015-P1
CY  - Roma
AB  - The meaning attributed to cancer, when passing the patient-family boundary is, in some degree, also shared between
health professionals, which can have effect on the professionals’ performance and influence the opinions of users about
health services. The focus of this work is the analysis of social representations about patients with cancer, in a population
of nurse students, professional nurses working with cancer patients, and professional nurses not working with cancer
patients, of both sexes. Our main goal is to know their conceptions towards oncologic patients. The methodological option
was the social representations theory. The data was retrieved by questionnaire using the free word association
technique. Several Factorial Correspondence Analysis where made to identify the different dimensions (or dependent
variables). In general, all professional groups represent oncologic patients by their physical alterations. Nurse students
decipher cancer in a distant perspective, as the unknown and something that causes discomfort and eventually… death.
In fact, patients with cancer are strongly associated to situations of pain, involving suffering, and death. Women show a
more positive perception of cancer, supported in treatment and hoping for a healing possibility. Men demonstrate a
greater difficulty in dissociating the patients with cancer of people who soon will die. There is still a long way to walk
before cancer patients are no longer associated to a death sign. 
ER  -