Antonio Dean Barbosa Marques

Body consciousness of people with intestinal stomach: A phenomenological study

OBJECTIVE to describe the bodily awareness of people with stomies. METHOD a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, carried out in the Ostomized Association of the State of Ceará, through semi-structured interviews with ten people with intestinal stomies, according to Merleau-Pontys phenomenological thinking. RESULTS two categories of analysis emerged: The body that I have, in which the sensations of deficiency, imperfection and bad odor add to the feeling of strangeness towards ones own body, affecting the way of being in the world of each deponent; and The body that others perceive, in which the stoma is seen as an embarrassing and complex experience, since it hampers daily activities and conviviality with other people. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS The corporeal consciousness of Being-Stomp-in-the-world requires the movement to reconstruct the senses of the body from the body I have and from that which others perceive.

Effectiveness of metronidazole in the treatment of tumor wound odors

Objetivo: analisar as evidencias da efetividade do Metronidazol no tratamento de odores em feridas tumorais. Metodos: revisao integrativa realizada nas bases de saude e no portal PubMed. Os estudos foram avaliados pela Escala de Jadad (ensaios clinicos randomizados), Downs e Black (quase experimentais) e o Strengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology (observacionais). Amostra de dez estudos e considerou-se como ponto de corte artigos que atingiram 50,0% dos criterios. Resultados: o Metronidazol se mostrou efetivo em 95,6% dos casos e a preparacao em gel a 0,75% foi a mais utilizada nos estudos. Conclusao: as evidencias apontam o metronidazol como seguro e eficaz no controle de odores em feridas tumorais, porem nao ha consenso sobre as formas de apresentacao e vias de administracao mais efetivas. A maioria dos estudos associa o surgimento de mau odor com o crescimento de bacterias anaerobias no tecido tumoral.

Conhecimento dos Profi ssionais de Saúde da Família Sobre Úlcera por Pressão

Este estudo objetivou avaliar o conhecimento dos profi ssionais que atuam na Estrategia Saude da Familia sobre avaliacao, classifi cacao e prevencao da ulcera por pressao. Tratou-se de um estudo descritivo-exploratorio, realizado em julho de 2014, no municipio de Crateus, no estado do Ceara, Brasil. Os dados foram coletados por meio de um questionario validado. Participaram 12 profi ssionais, sendo quatro medicos, quatro enfermeiros e quatro tecnicos em Enfermagem. Os medicos atingiram a media de 75,6%; os enfermeiros de 74,4% e os tecnicos de Enfermagem de 62,5% dos acertos. Conclui-se que ha falta de conhecimento com relacao as diretrizes existentes sobre prevencao, classifi cacao e tratamento da ulcera por pressao entre os profi ssionais que atuam na atencao basica. A educacao permanente pode ser uma estrategia efi caz para aprimorar o conhecimento desses profi ssionais.

Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: Impacts And Changes In Life Of Carriers Undergoing Treatment

Diagnosis and treatment of Hodgkin’s lymphoma introduce a new routine, and the habitual life of the young adult is interrupted because the treatment imposes on patients withdrawing from their environment, their productive activities, their relatives and their daily life. The aim of the present is study is to understand the reality of the young adult carrier of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the face of treatment. This is a qualitative study; subjects were patients diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma at a reference hospital in northeastern Brazil. Inclusion criteria were being undergoing treatment or follow-up of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and aged 18 to 35 years. The information was collected through an interview at the home of each subject in the period from August and September 2015. The interviews were recorded, transcribed in full and analyzed through thematic analysis. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee. The subjects went through a rather individual pathway to discover the disease. After reading the interviews, the following category emerged: Impact and changes in life with cancer. They feel the impact of cancer and of the process of illness and treatment that promote physical and social changes. They reveal the coping of the disease with liveliness, and present strategies for this process, such as the support of family and friends. They recognize the existence of difficult moments and face situations of death, but they show intention to return to their daily activities and have perspectives for cure.

Representaciones sociales de los medios de comunicación acerca de la diabetes infantil

Objective: To understand the social representations produced by the media about childhood diabetes. Method: Study of social representations with documental basis. The search for news was carried out in two newspapers from Ceará Diário do Nordeste and O Povo and in two printed magazines: Veja and IstoÉ. Results: 19 news items were identified. The textual content resulting from the news was processed and analyzed through the IRAMUTEQ software. Descending Hierarchical Classification (DHC) divided the set of journalistic contents into six classes, named according to their content. Conclusion: The media uses different approaches to represent the same social phenomenon, affecting the way of production and/or modification of how society confronts the phenomena of daily life and the way it interprets them.

Family Relationships Of A Crack Cocaine-Using Pregnant Women In A Brazilian Northeastern City

Background: This article aims to describe family relationships of a crack cocaine-using pregnant woman through a genogram. Methods: A qualitative case study was carried out, in which semi-structured interviews were applied with the selected pregnant woman, three relatives and one health professional. The interviews were analysed using thematic content analysis and the results favored the construction of a genogram. Results: The results show a nuclear family formed by slum dwellers, with too close emotional relationships among some of the members; at the same time, the existence of fragile relationships are also highlighted, but the abuse of crack cocaine was not enough to change them, Drug use changed her trajectory to move through the health system. Conclusion: There is a need to raise awareness among health professionals about the care and monitoring of psychoactive substance users, in order to overcome barriers to access and improve the understanding about their family relations.