Qualidade de vida dos usuários cadastrados no Programa de Atenção ao Estomizado no município de Capão do Leão

Abstract

By questioning the quality of life of ostomy patients in the municipality of Capão do Leão, the present study was proposed, which has the general objective to identify the profile and quality of life of users of Care Program to ostomy in the city of Capão do Leão, RS. The population consisted of all 14 registered ostomy patients in the Care Program to ostomy patients until the month of November 2015. We conducted a descriptive exploratory study of qualitative - quantitative nature. For data collection were used 4 methodological processes, each of them being a questionnaire specifically designed for the study, document analysis, field diary and the instrument developed by WHO WHOQOL BREF. As main results of this study, was found out that the subjects have better quality of life in the areas of social and environmental relationships, and worse quality of life in physical and psychological domains. There were also identified and analyzed factors such as gender, age, marital status, education, and other characteristics relevant to the study such as self-care, pathology which led to the stoma, stoma time. The results of this investigation point to the need for closer nurse monitoring of the stoma subjects and their families / caregivers, in order to minimize the negative impact resulting from the ostomy presence and to promote self-care and social reintegration of the individual.