Oficinas pedagógicas na prevenção de solidão para pessoas idosas

• Ano de defesa: 2024
• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Taciana Maria Bezerra de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Medicina; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biotecnologia; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Solidão - Idoso; Pessoa idosa; Envelhecimento; Oficinas pedagógicas; Prevenção da solidão; Loneliness; Elderly people; Aging; Educational workshops; Prevention of loneliness; Soledad; Persona Mayor; Envejecimiento; Talleres pedagógicos; Prevención de la soledad; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/36030

Introduction: Loneliness is defined as a painful and distressing event, being subjective and difficult for the elderly to express, and may be related to isolation. There is a relationship between negative feelings and isolation, bringing verbal and nonverbal signals to the elderly that express depressive and aggressive behaviors. Objectives: to know the scientific evidence on loneliness in the elderly; to identify the factors that influence loneliness in the elderly; to propose pedagogical workshops for the prevention of loneliness for the elderly. Methods: this is a methodological study, with a qualitative and descriptive approach to propose pedagogical workshops for the prevention of loneliness for the elderly. Developed in three stages: (1) scoping review, (2) field research, (3) construction of pedagogical workshops for the prevention of loneliness in the elderly. The sample consisted of 63 elderly people who attend the Paraibano Institute of Aging. The collected data constituted a corpus that was processed with the aid of the IRaMuTeQ® software. The research was approved by the Ethics and Research Committee under No. 6,525,134, CAAE: 74101023.0.0000.5188. Results and Discussion: in the scoping review, 10 articles were selected that identified the main causes that promote loneliness in elderly people, the highlights being: economic level, low education level, advanced age, lack of company, chronic diseases and loss of emotional ties. In addition, the factors of widowhood, absence of children, retirement and the transition to long-term care institutions can promote or aggravate loneliness. In the field research, content related to sadness, depression, isolation, anxiety, anguish and abandonment was observed. Based on these findings, a model of pedagogical workshops for the prevention of loneliness in elderly people was proposed. Final considerations: in this way, it was possible to identify that loneliness is an event with multifactorial aspects and that the presence of sadness and depression indicate a profound negative emotional state, while isolation and abandonment point to the lack of social connections and helplessness faced by the elderly. Anxiety and anguish, on the other hand, highlight the constant concern and emotional discomfort associated with loneliness. However, pedagogical workshops can be an intervention focused on consolidating social support networks, promoting and encouraging meaningful relationships, becoming a strategy with great potential for preventing loneliness in the elderly.