Percepção e gestão do risco de contaminação do Covid-19 no ambiente familiar em Maputo - 2021

Abstract

The present study, entitled " Perception and Management of Covid-19 Contamination Risk in the Family Environment" sought to understand the perceptions that households, residents in the neighborhood of Laulane have about Covid-19, and how they manage the risk of contracting them the illness within the family. The argument we defend in this monograph was that individuals are endowed with an awareness of risk based on their experiences in various aspects of daily life, and therefore, they move strategically between the different logics of risk management of contamination of the Covid-19, according to their stock of knowledge. With regard to the methodology used in this work, we use the qualitative method. In terms of data collection technique we use semi-structured interviews. As for our sample, it consisted of six (6) families, whose households are composed of, on average, 6 people, using the accessibility sampling technique as a selection criterion. For data analysis and interpretation, we used Albert Schutz's phenomenological theory, from which social reality exists in the representations of society members, created and structured through lived and shared experiences. In this order of ideas, our results show that the interviewed families are aware of the risk that Covid-19 represents, and in response to this, they adopt internal and external prevention strategies, rooted and solidified in the social and structured values and beliefs of according to the stock of knowledge they possess. The prevention mechanisms activated by the families offer a framework of subjective relationships about the risk, depending on the perception that each family has about the disease