ABSTRACT
Objective
To recognize the perception of counseling by professionals and users of the Testing and Counseling Center to perform the Rapid Test for the diagnosis of HIV.
Method
Qualitative research conducted at the Testing and Counseling Center. We interviewed users and professionals who performed the rapid test. The analysis followed the steps proposed in the empirical phenomenology of Giorgi, articulating with the literature.
Results
Five categories were identified: Prepredicative experience when performing The rapid test; Intent of feelings; Perception of user advice; Perception of individual counseling in the post-test and; Perception of professionals about counseling. Collective counseling is perceived by the users as a talk about STI / Aids with an emphasis on negative consequences and individual counseling as more comfortable and possibility for exposing doubts.
Discussion
It is considered that even knowing the importance of counseling, this is done in an empirical way, reducing the act to the transfer of information with educational content, aiming at only cognitive learning and as a means of disseminating knowledge, thus trying to reduce the HIV/ Aids transmission chain.
Keywords:
Counseling; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Serological tests; Aids serodiagnosis