Social representations about the binomium vaccines and vaccination emerging among elementary school II students at a public school in southeast Pará

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the social representations of elementary school II students at a public school regarding the binomial vaccines and vaccination. This is research with a qualitative and quantitative approach, based on the Theory of Social Representations. The participants were 197 students, the data creation instruments were a questionnaire and the free word association technique. The database was organized in the Microsoft Excel Program, the words evoked by the students were processed by openEvoc 0.92 and analyzed according to the Central Nucleus Theory. The results pointed to a central nucleus formed by four consensual and homogeneous elements (protection, I will get vaccinated, health and prevention), strongly anchored in knowledge and guidelines disseminated by the scientific community. The other elements that constituted the peripheral system were heterogeneous and are not specifically related to knowledge arising from the scientific environment, but express the students' personal beliefs and experiences

Keywords

• representações sociais
• ensino fundamental ii
• vacinas
• vacinação