Social representations of citizenship by inpatients: implications for hospital care

ABSTRACT

Objective:

examine the social representations of citizenship by inpatients receiving hospital care.

Method:

qualitative approach, using the Theory of Social Representations as a framework, with 31 inpatients in the internal medicine sector of a public university hospital. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, whose data were submitted to the Alceste program, with application of lexical analysis.

Results:

patients understand their rights, and citizenship in the care process is understood based on the right to health, to receive good care from a technical and human standpoint.

Conclusion:

being well treated as a person and the provision of technical-procedural care are rights of patients; the absence of one or the other implies, therefore, lack of respect for their citizenship.

Descriptors:
Right to Health; Patient Rights; Hospital Care; Social Psychology; Nursing Care