MACEDO, Danielle Constancia Felício; MARTINS-SILVA, Priscilla de Oliveira; GAVI, Maria Bernadete Renoldi de Oliveira    MACEDO, Ana Paula Dias. Social representations of marriage and fibromyalgia: developments in marital dynamics. []. , 23, 4, pp.987-1002. ISSN 1413-389X.  https://doi.org/10.9788/TP2015.4-14.

Fibromyalgia consists of a disease characterized among other symptoms by widespread pain, fatigue, non-restorative sleep, and complex uncertain etiology and response to treatment. Such characteristics may precipitate the emergence of feelings of vulnerability capable of impacting the familiar routine of patients. Therefore, this study aims to understand and analyze, from the perspective of Social Psychology, such as social representations (SR) of women with fibromyalgia and their spouses on conjugality and about the condition of illness are linked to their marital dynamic. This is a qualitative study that conducted interviews with four couples in which the wives are diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Participants also completed a sociodemographic questionnaire. For the data analysis was employed the technique of content analysis which unveiled an extensive network of meanings accessed by participants in the processes of anchoring of RS of fibromyalgia and conjugality, containing elements such as: the love; the male and female roles; the sick and caring; the fibromyalgia and its consequences in the routine of the patient and his family. Finally, we found the existence of a field of fragility of women with fibromyalgia and those close to them in the process of coping with the disease. Necessary to make the health care act early in information about the disease and the identification of possible conflicts in family and marital framework that can be triggered both in the diagnostic investigation and in the course of treatment and the particularities of daily living with the disease.

: Fibromyalgia; conjugality; social representations.

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