Resultados: 3

Experiences and coping with the altered body image in digestive stoma patients

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...

Living with digestive stomas: strategies to cope with the new bodily reality

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...

Sentimentos e sugestöes manifestados por colostomizados que se auto-irrigam

Rev. Esc. Enferm. USP; 26 (2), 1992
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...