Vivencias y prácticas de autocuidado de las mujeres con cáncer de mama. Popayán. Colombia. 2006-2007

  BACKGROUND: Breast cancer affects physical, emotional, spiritual, social- familiar and behavior components of the women with this pathology. These changes occurred during phases: diagnosis and after-treatment. OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study refers to the description of women's breast cancer livings and practice in every stage mentioned, identifying conditional basic factors (age, educative level, etc), describing universal self-care requirements (familiar and social relationship), deviation health requirements (general knowledge of cancer) and identifying practices and self-care necessities. DESIGN: It is an ethnographic qualitative study carried out with ten women, fve on them in treatment and fve on ambulatory control. The information was recollected from semi-structured and open interviews, clinical histories and camp diary; adjusted to self-care defcit Dorotea Orem´s theory. RESULTS: suggest that acquaintance breast cancer are defcient, it continue being a taboo disease, synonymous of suffering, pain, disfguration and death; it generates changes on way and quality of life making process slowly and diffcult. Procedures that patients must carry out constitute an obstacle in the process. CONCLUSIONS: Doesn't exist a standard integral attention pattern for women with breast cancer, the treatment is exclusively clinical and doesn´t include psycho-social aspects own of breast cancer.   Key Works: Experiences. Selfcare.

• Fecha de publicación: 2009
• Institución: Universidad Industrial de Santander
• Repositorio: Repositorio UIS
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:noesis.uis.edu.co:20.500.14071/5535
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistamedicasuis/article/view/349; https://noesis.uis.edu.co/handle/20.500.14071/5535
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)