FEELINGS EXPRESSED BY STOMIZED PATIENTS OF A PUBLIC HOSPITAL IN JOÃO PESSOA - PB

Abstract

The study aims to know the stomized patient, characterizing types and causes of ostomy, and his feelings face on this new reality. It is a quantitative research, which was developed in a public hospital in João Pessoa-PB, from August 2010 to August 2011. The population was constituted by all the patients who were submitted to surgery in the studied period, in a total of 24 patients with stoma. The data were analyzed using MS Excel, enabling descriptive statistic and presentation of results through tables. In addition, the study was approved by the Ethics Research Committee of Santa Emilia de Rodat College – FASER, under protocol n. 032/2010. In the studied year, 24 patients submitted to the confection of stoma were identified. From these, 14 (58.3%) were men and 10 (41.7%), women. The age category presented the following data: from 17 to 20 years: 02 (8.3%); from 31 to 40: 02 (8.3%); from 41 to 50: 05 (20.8%); from 51 to 60: 05 (20.8%); over 60 years: 10 (41.8%). In relation to the kind of stoma, 21 patients (87.5%) had colostomy; two (8.3%) had ileostomy; and one patient had bilateral stoma (one colostomy and one ileostomy). Furthermore, it is verified that stoma provokes a violation to corporal integrity, causing psychological and emotional fragility in the stomized patient. Due to this gap, it is emphasized the importance of biopsychosocial care to the stomized patient by nurses specialized in stomatherapy that may assist the client since the preoperative period until hospital discharge.