Compreensão leitora e consciência textual de textos narrativos em interface com o bem-estar : um estudo com pacientes psiquiátricos internados

Abstract

This current research aimed the elaboration and application of reading comprehension and textual awareness workshops in a psycholinguistic perspective. More specifically, in coherence, lexical cohesion and grammatical cohesion in narrative texts (fable, chronicle and myth) that could promote well-being (in the aspects of motivation, cognitive organization and integration) to psychiatric inpatients (mainly diagnosed with depression). There was the application of the reading pre and post-tests and the reading workshops; the patients' demographic and hospital data, the application of these workshops, the pre and post-tests data, the reports of the applicators who work on the project and the patients’ reports were also correlated. The results indicated, through Pearson's correlations (0.52 and 0.55), that the patients performed better in the post-test (after participating in the workshops) than in the pre-test. In the mean scores of the pre and post-tests and the workshops, the results showed that, in general, patients with a higher level of education obtained higher mean scores. The results also indicated during the workshops that the patients who had satisfactory performance in reading comprehension, also had it in textual awareness. In the correlation of the mean scores of attitudes, patients’ integration, reading comprehension and textual awareness, the results showed that these variables, when worked together in these workshops, may have contributed to the promotion of patients' well-being in the proposed aspects. The application of the questionnaire for the applicators allowed to affirm that the workshops were viable and could assist in the promotion of the well-being. The perceptions reported by the patients about the workshops were in line with the objectives of the present research, in addition to being anchored in the theoretical framework that supported the study. Thus, through the data analysis, in the light of these theories, the perceptions of the applicators , the psychiatric inpatients, the application of the workshops, the pre and post-tests and the demographic and hospital data of the inpatients was shown the purpose, the feasibility, the applicability, the new linguistic directions and the good acceptance of these activities in the promotion of the psychiatric inpatients well-being in the aspects of motivation, cognitive organization and integration.