Perfil de pacientes portadores de gastrostomia e o papel dos cuidadores no domicílio

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Ana Cristina Ferreira [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108609
• topic: Estomago - Cirurgia; Gastrostomia; Sistema gastrointestinal; Enfermagem; Cuidadores; Cuidados com os doentes; Gastrostomy

Patients with malnutrition and cerebral palsy attended in the ambulatory AIPEG (Interdisciplinary Ambulatory for Child Patient with encephalopathy and gastrostomy) of BSH (Bauru State Hospital), need of gastrostomy for help feeding by dysphagia and are accompanied by a multidisciplinary team and interdisciplinary. In this quantitative, transversal, descriptive and exploratory study, it was verified a profile of caregivers and patients in this ambulatory and described the difficulties found by these families / caregivers at home. After approval of the research ethics committee and signing the free and informed consent families/carers of patients AIPEG (Interdisciplinary Ambulatory for Child Patient with encephalopathy and gastrostomy) were approached with a questionnaire and answered open and closed questions. We used also, as a source of data, analysis of the patients' records. Data were collected from January to June 2012. The sample was composed of 50 patients and their family/caregivers, 60,00% of patients were female, 70,00% Caucasian, with a mean age of 11.43 years. The medical diagnostic of all patients (100,00%) was cerebral palsy and 91,17% presented malnutrition. Most patients, 92,00% made surgical gastrostomy. With respect to caregivers 98,00% were female, with mean age of 40.82 years old, 70,00% were Caucasian, 86,00% of families / caregivers are mothers themselves and the patients income with mean of 2.32 minimum salaries. About the difficulties most reported, by family / caregivers, there was the account of output of the tube ostomy with prevalence of 84,00% and 68,00% of family / caregivers told the occurrence of skin lesion. A gastrostomy is a procedure that assists in the patient's condition, helping the family care in homes, which has a preference for silicone tube at skin level (button). Becomes evident that although the service offers an appropriate structure, with a multidisciplinary team and ...