Abstract
This qualitative study shows the results of workshops held with health workers and public health users (raped women), aimed at raising these women's self-esteem and creating awareness among health workers who attend them. Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques were used to bring back life experiences, which contributed to a re-reading and to minimize causal factors of low self-esteem. Themes like repugnance, fear and the fruit of rape; image and place; death; revenge; support and solidarity; domestic violence and bad care delivery to victims were addressed during the meetings. The stories were transcribed and analyzed, preserving content fidelity. Experiences lived at home and with loved and admired people, and mainly experiences resulting from the rape were responsible for the low self-esteem. The evaluations indicated the workshops as an opportunity to reflect, to return to normal life and to reconstruct self-esteem, for the raped women as well for the health workers who deliver care to them.
Highlights
This project grew out of the researcher’s and her research group’s perception and experience in care delivery to women at basic health units and in the organization of self-esteem workshops that involved students, employees and clients
These research results allow us to affirm the close connection between the impact of social conditions on women’s health and discrimination or social repression and sexual violence; these studies indicate low selfesteem as a paramount factor caused by situations of exclusion, abandonment, need and threat experienced in relations, entailing negative consequences for quality of life[1,2]
Basic needs are interlinked and wellbeing depends on safety: the safer we feel in the environment we are part of, the more our self-esteem will be raised by confidence and respect and, continue high
Summary
This project grew out of the researcher’s and her research group’s perception and experience in care delivery to women at basic health units and in the organization of self-esteem workshops that involved students, employees and clients. The satisfaction of self-esteem needs makes individuals feel confident (about their value, strength, capacity and adequacy), more useful and needed in the world. Non-satisfaction, on the other hand, produces feelings of inferiority, weakness and impotence in individuals. The persistence of these feelings will lead to failures in their trajectory or different pathological processes[4]. Basic needs are interlinked and wellbeing depends on safety: the safer we feel in the environment we are part of, the more our self-esteem will be raised by confidence and respect and, continue high
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