Abstract
Objective
to present an overview of nurses’ social image published in the Brazilian Printed Media from 1970 to 1999.
Methods
this is an exploratory, documentary, quantitative study, which used as a data source the editions published by Estado de São Paulo in the 30 years between 1970 and 1999, which mentioned the term “nurses”, identified through web scraping. News processing and analysis carried out using the Sphinx software.
Results
10,950 issues of the newspaper and 2,528 news items that mentioned the term “nurses” were identified. We identified an average of seven news a month about nurses. However, in 90.3%, nurses were only mentioned in the text, without any highlight or relationship with the main news. Furthermore, most articles were published in the classified section, in the form of an article or column, which, by constitutive characteristic, brings the opinion of the author on a given topic.
Conclusion
we can infer, based on the analyzed data, that despite the significant amount of news published on the subject during the analyzed period, this contributed little to constructing the image of nurses as health professionals in Brazilian society because most of the news only mentioned nurses in the text or used the term to characterize an object or situation.
Nurses; Mass media; Notices; Nurse’s role; Social desirability
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