Abstract
The following is a descriptive exploratory research, which aiming to identify coping strategies used by patients diagnosed with indication for cardiac surgery. The data were collected in the post-operative period, aiming to characterize the population through a survey, also using a Jalowiec Coping Inventory to identify coping styles used by the subjects to face stressing factors. It has been highlighted the predominance of the supportive style (50%), which means that patients use systems of personal, professional, and spiritual support to face the problem. The optimistic style also happened considerably often (48.5%) for the population and refers to the mental elaboration and positive comparisons in the attempt to minimize the emotions from stressing situations. The identification of coping strategies by patients with cardiac surgery indication allows a nursing assistance with the aim of fulfilling and adapting to the emotional and physiological needs in the surgical process.
Highlights
Data were collected in the post-operative period, to characterize the population through a survey, using a Jalowiec Coping Inventory to identify coping styles used by the subjects to face stressing factors. It has been highlighted the predominance of the supportive style (50%), which means that patients use systems of personal, professional, and spiritual support to face the problem
Data were collected in the post-operative period, to characterize the population through a survey, also using a Jalowiec Coping Inventory to identify coping styles used by the subjects to face stressing factors
Sentimentos e percepções do cliente no pré-operatório de cirurgia cardíaca [dissertação]
Summary
RESUMO A presente pesquisa, de caráter descritivo-exploratório, teve como objetivo identificar as estratégias de enfrentamento (coping) que os pacientes utilizam ante a indicação de cirurgia cardíaca. A identificação das estratégias de enfrentamento adotada pelos pacientes com indicação de cirurgia cardíaca permite uma assistência de enfermagem voltada ao seu atendimento e sua adaptação às demandas emocionais e fisiológicas do processo cirúrgico. Compreender a perspectiva de mundo que tem esse ser humano torna-se essencial à enfermagem e parece ser um dos primeiros passos para o desenvolvimento de uma assistência humanizada, com vista a atendê-lo em suas especificidades e permitir-lhe uma vivência menos desgastante de seu processo saúde-doença(3). Por se acreditar que o conhecimento dos mecanismos de adaptação auxiliam o enfermeiro na assistência ao paciente, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo identificar as estratégias de enfrentamento (coping) dos pacientes ante a indicação de cirurgia cardíaca
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