Eu bebo sim e estou vivendo: qualidade de vida, masculinidade, padrões de consumo de álcool e representações sociais de bebida alcoólica para homens usuários de unidade de saúde da família

Abstract

The National Policy of Integral Attention of Men’s Health proposes different forms of operation when it comes to the health team in the men’s care, once the public demands different service strategies. When faced with the reality lived by men, many questions about the social stereotype about the male characteristics and their experiences emerge. The purpose of the research was to comprehend some relevant aspects to the male’s family healthcare users’ health, such as quality of life, alcohol consumption, social representations of the alcohol and masculinity’s characteristics. It was used a sample from 300 men, who go to the Family Healthcare Centre, and was applied a questionnaire with the sociodemographic data, the World Health Organization Quality of Life (Whoqol-bref), the Ben Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), an evocation exercise about alcohol, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (Audit) and a group to verify the problems caused by the use of alcohol and the search for treatment. The data of the quantitative instruments were analyzed with statistics tests of comparison of average and correlation. The evocation data were analyzed using the software EVOC (Ensemble de Programmes Permettant l’Analyse des Évocations). In the first analysis, it was showed higher adhesion to feminine characteristics, high perception of quality of life and patterns of alcohol consumerism similar to the national averages. Men who declare active religious present an average significantly lower of alcohol consumerism. Present inverse correlation to the alcohol consumerism the female genre characteristics, the physical dominations, social, physiological and global perception of quality of life. In the evocation analysis, it showed that the elements with the tendency to centrality are, mostly, negative. The data of the general population presented the term taste as a positive and central aspect of alcoholic beverage. The abstinent group did not present a positive evaluation of the term and the group of consumers presented the term fun at the first periphery, referring to the positive and social aspects of the alcoholic beverages. The users demonstrated having certain awareness about the problems related to the alcohol consumerism. Despite the fact that the majority of the terms related to alcohol are negative, this consumerism is still in a considerable level. With that said, it is necessary a link between the professional and the healthcare user to give the opportunity in order to make the real practices about alcohol be evidenced. Those data can help family healthcare professionals to reflect about the social representations they create about low income class service users men.