Percepção e gestão do risco de contaminação da covid-19: caso dos consumidores de bebidas alcoólicas na cidade de Maputo, 2021

Abstract

This study, entitled “Covid-19 Contamination Risk Perception and Management: case of alcoholic beverage consumers in Maputo City, 2021” sought to understand the perceptions that adult both male and female of alcoholic beverages, living in Inhagoia B neighborhood who attend space of vulnerability and risk exposure have on Covid-19 and how they manage the risk of contracting the disease in places where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed. The argument defended in this monograph was that adult consumers of alcoholic beverages face the places of consumption of alcoholic beverages (areas of high vulnerability) not due to a lack of risk awareness, but due to the social integration (conviviality) that these spaces offer, and that, therefore, consume alcoholic beverages observing prevention measures according to their social relevance frameworks. Concerning methodology used in this work, we resorted to the qualitative method. In terms of collection technique of data, we used semi-structured interviews. As for our sample, it was made up of ten (10) consumers of alcoholic beverages, having as selection criterion, the accessibility sampling technique. For analysis and interpretation of data, we used the phenomenological theory of Albert Schutz, from which the social reality exists in the representations of the members of society, created and structured through the lived and shared experiences. In this order of ideas, our results show that the alcoholic beverage consumers are aware of the risk that Covid-19 poses, and in response to this, and resort to a set of risk management strategies whenever they attend the beverage sales and consumption locations. We found that factors such as fun, shelter, life's adversities (death of loved ones, moments of loneliness, etc.) end up taking the individuals to become involved in the consumption of alcoholic beverages and to submit to several situations of risk.