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A hepatite C na Internet e suas implicações na relação terapêutica: a perspectiva do médico
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Reis, Bianca Vieira |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | This paper examines the medical perspective on the effects generated by the appropriation, by patients, of health information available on the Internet. Our analytical focus emphasizes its impact on doctor-patient relationship, understood as a therapeutic relationship. Thus, we chose as object of study the medical care to patients with hepatitis C. More specifically, the communicational aspect present in the interaction necessarily prolonged, between the hepatologist – the branch of medicine specialized on the liver study and treatment - and their patients with HCV, hepatitis C virus. We join the approaches on the care for chronically ill persons who have praised the patient role as an actor, both in the negotiated construction of the disease definition (diagnosis) and in the social organization of the treatment. This vision is more sensitive to the existence of different types of physicians and patients that establish different interactions and not a single model of relationship. Factors such as the physician's specialty, the socioeconomic status of the patient and their education, as well as the institutional status of the medical consultation - meaning if it occurs in a private practice, whether it is mediated by health insurance, or if it happens in the public health system, results in very different interactions. Therefore, the impact of the Internet, as a mediation instrument in the doctor-patient relationship, must be qualified in terms of each disease, medical treatments available and the social and institutional contexts in which it occurs. Our empirical research was based on qualitative study, from in-depth semi-structured individual interviews with nine hepatologists - seven of them working in the public and private sectors and the other two only in the private sector, but with previous experience of over twenty years in Hepatology reference hospitals in the Brazilian Health System (SUS – Portuguese acronym). The chronic nature of hepatitis C, the treatment forms, the monitoring of side effects and lethal risks related sets circumstances which, such as on other chronic morbidities, allow to HCV patients an extended emotional and cognitive involvement with this disease. This explains the emergence of support groups and social networks that are organized around common agendas for the sick, claiming the expansion of medical care and therapeutical resources within the State. The hepatologists discourse on the main issues related to the uses of health information in the Internet, include: a) the patient can not filter generic information and may not understand that the findings does not necessarily reflect their state of health, b) they can not always recognize the reliable sources of information, distinguishing good information from bad and / or no truthful, or distorted information; c) the patient can not always understand what was read or extract relevant information. Sometimes, the negative information is valued; d) the patient does not always have psychological profile to deal with the content accessed. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/bitstream/icict/6187/1/dissetacao%20BIANCA%20final-final-corrpag1.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
