Representaciones sociales sobre la relación entre la actividad física y cáncer de mama de un grupo de mujeres pertenecientes a la fundación simmon de bogotá

Abstract

The social representations are systems with a logic and own language with the function to establish an order both in the material world that in the social, that give explanations and generate codes to name and signify lot of the experiences that accompany them. In the case of physical activity as a mediator of all activity that generate pleasure, integration and identity to a group, its representation in patients with ills as a cancer is for vital importance.

This investigation pretended identify the social representations of the physical activity in a group of women that live with breast cancer in Bogotá city. From a historical hermeneutic paradigm, a qualitative approach and a narrative design of topics inquired 11 women that live with breast cancer about their representations of physical activity and using the ATLAS TI an analysis was developed A content analysis was developed, from which 65 codes associated with the concepts of information, attitude and representational field were identified and 18 emerging categories according to which physical activity is represented as a way of raising awareness about health and a mechanism that generates well-being, favoring the quality of life.

Likewise, it was recognized that physical activity is seen as an aspect that favors family relationships and a tool for strengthening networks generating attitudinal changes, a feeling of overcoming and the desire to help other people who live with the disease. The body and human movement in this disease is a mediator of the daily activities of women that gives a new meaning to cancer and the beliefs about the disease by making possible new alternatives of intervention in addition to the medical ones for its approach and treatment.