2016
DOI: 10.1590/s0080-623420160000600006
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Understanding of the life experience of homeless women

Abstract: Objective:To understand the life experience of homeless women. Method: A social phenomenological study was conducted with 10 women assisted by a shelter. The analysis of the interviews was based on the theoretical framework of social phenomenology of Alfred Schütz and thematic literature. Results: The participants face adversities in the street context, with emphasis on the risk of physical and sexual abuse, and seek shelters as a possibility for minimizing difficulties experienced. They hope to leave the stre… Show more

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“…Participants want a better quality of life in the reality where they live, considering a shelter as a social apparatus that can meet their needs of home, safety, food, sleep, and rest, a result also found in other studies conducted in Brazil in both midsize (31) and large (25) cities.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 59%
“…Participants want a better quality of life in the reality where they live, considering a shelter as a social apparatus that can meet their needs of home, safety, food, sleep, and rest, a result also found in other studies conducted in Brazil in both midsize (31) and large (25) cities.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 59%
“…For participants, abstaining from alcohol contributes to positive attitudes in self-care, such as eating, bathing, sleeping, working, preventing oneself. Studies carried out with HP on the use of alcohol and other drugs indicate that this behavior is an alternative for street survival (7,(35)(36)(37) . The words "good relations" were the third most evoked, revealing the need to avoid confusion, not to fight, know what to see and what to speak on the streets, as well as to define who to hang around with, thus protecting themselves from situations of violence and/or trouble.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although they refer to this word, most use drugs, especially alcohol (74%). In this sense, there is self-care that is based on abstaining from drugs as a positive strategy and there is self-care that is anchored in using drugs as a tool to face the street and its difficulties and facilitate socialization (7,36) . The word "work" (F = 36; MOE = 3.583) is important, and the characterization data indicate that 88% of the 122 HP that composed this study were engaged in paid activity.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…It was reported, despite the guilty feeling and disgust of the body itself described as recurrent, that this practice was the way found to survive. 12 It makes the individual even more vulnerable by being a homeless and prostitute, since, for some social groups, prostitution is seen as a problem that must be solved through repression. 13 The meaning of drug use and abuse is given singularly to each one, sometimes as a way of filling basic emotional needs and sometimes a chemical solution to soften the social insanity that acts in the exclusion of this population.…”
Section: Objectivementioning
confidence: 99%