Mal de Simioto: práticas de saúde às crianças no interior do Brasil
Simioto’s disease: health practice for children in the interior of Brazil
Ciênc. cuid. saúde; 15 (1), 2016
Publication year: 2016
The “Simioto’sDisease” is a disease that has popular legitimacy and influences the search for treatment for infant health problems. This study aimed to understand the health practices related to Simioto’sDisease in a city in the interior of Brazil, from the perspective of parents of treated children. This is a qualitative and descriptive study performed by obtaining data using a semi-structured questionnaire with parents of children who were diagnosed and treated for the Simioto’sDisease. The data were subjected to content analysis.
The categories discussedwere:
The Simioto’sDisease pathology and its cultural aspects: symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and its indications and effectiveness; Relationship between Simioto’sDisease and professionalhealth care; The profile of healers or informal care and religiosity in the care of Simioto’sDisease. It was concluded that diagnosis and treatment are practices based on symptoms that generate a popular diagnosis. By describing the parent perspective, this practice is based on the belief of the treatmentefficacy and is legitimized by the healer reception, guidelines and precautionary measures of the disease that are passed, among other care, in addition to the baths performing frequency.
O “Mal de Simioto” é uma doença que possui legitimidade popular e queinfluencia a busca por tratamento para problemas de saúde infantil. Objetivou-se compreender as práticas de saúde relacionadas ao Mal de Simioto em um município no interior do Brasil, na perspectiva dos pais das crianças tratadas. Estudo qualitativo, descritivo, realizado através da obtenção de dados com o uso de questionário semiestruturado com os pais de crianças que foram diagnosticadas e tratadas com o Mal de Simioto. Os dados foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo.