Entre a tuberculose ou tchokolo: a busca de tratamento por parte dos habitantes do bairro de Mafarinha na Cidade de Dondo

Abstract

The objective of this research work is to understand the search for treatment on the part of tuberculosis and tchokolo patients, as well as describe the meanings attributed to the treatments prescribed for that condition. The research was carried out in the City of Dondo, more specifically in the neighborhood of Mafarinha, focusing on people with tuberculosis and tchokolo as the focus of the research. The concept of explanatory models developed by Kleinman was used as the guiding thread of the research, argues that the way people conceive the disease and therapeutic itineraries they are related to the knowledge and cultural values ​​of the context where people are inserted. It was found that resident individuals have several conceptions, around the etiology of tuberculosis / tchokolo, believing that it is a disease caused by the constraint of norms pre-established in the community, from the practice of abortion, to the purification of widows. The study concludes that the process of seeking treatment for people with tuberculosis / tchokolo in Bairro de Mafarinha is influenced by the way in which residents conceive tuberculosis, since, in this neighborhood, tuberculosis is associated with “tchokolo” a disease with characteristics and symptoms similar to tuberculosis, which leads residents of this neighborhood to cross several therapeutic alternatives. However, this process is influenced to a great extent by the traditionally accepted ways of treating diseases. Patients opt for biomedicine and when it does not cure the family has broken the rules taking the patient to medicine traditional. However, there is a group that believes that the disease is traditional and only traditionally. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)