ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the coping of stoma patients with the news about the ostomy, as well as to analyze the meaning and the experience of their new bodily reality. Method: qualitative phenomenological study undertaken through semistructured interviews with 21 stoma patients. The analysis was...
OBJECTIVE: the objective in this study was to describe the strategies developed by digestive stoma patients to cope with their situation. METHOD: a qualitative and descriptive study was undertaken, involving 21 stoma patients living in the provinces of Málaga and Granada (Spain). The informants were sel...
INTRODUCTION: the changes caused by ostomy are not restricted to gastrointestinal physiology, but also affect self-esteem and body image, causing changes in family, professional, social and emotional life. OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the quality of life in ostomized patients. METHOD: a cross-sectional epidemi...
A análise dos sentimentos e das sugestöes apresentadas por um grupo de colostomizados que utilizam um determinado método de auto-irrigaçäo da colostomia para a reeducaçäo do hábito intestinal, mostrou que ele é muito bem aceito por esta clientela. Após a obtençäo dos resultados considerados p...
Analisam-se 30 pacientes portadores de estoma, segundo mudanças na imagem corporal, utilizando o desenho da figura humana como instrumento de avaliaçäo. Os aspectos profissionais, sociais e sexuais säo também enfocados, visando detectar alteraçöes psicológicas que influenciam nessas áreas. A seg...
