Abstract
To assess the quality of life of people with intestinal stoma and its association with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. Cross-sectional and analytical study conducted with people with intestinal stoma. An instrument was used for sociodemographic and clinical characterization: COH-QOL-OQ, validated in Brazil. The sample included 152 people with stomas. There were significant differences among all dimensions (p-value < 0.01) of quality of life. The dimension spiritual well-being had the highest mean, with 6.69 (±1.56), followed by the psychological well-being dimension, 5.00 (±1.94), social well-being, 4.63 (±1.83), and physical well-being, 4.54 (±1.77). Marital status, religion, type of stoma, and permanence had statistically significant associations with dimensions of quality of life (p-value < 0.05). The assessment of quality of life in people with intestinal stoma presented lower scores in the physical, social, and psychological dimensions. There was an association between better quality of life scores and people with definitive ileostomy, in a domestic partnership and practicing other religions.
Highlights
Quality of life (QL) is a complex construct which involves self-satisfaction of individuals in relation to their lives and the multiple factors which comprise it, such as health, cultural, social, and psychological values[1]
There was an association between better quality of life scores and people with definitive ileostomy, in a domestic partnership and practicing other religions
This study was conducted with 152 participants who had as main sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, described in Table 1, the predominance of participants with a mean age closer to the elderly age group, brown (74, 48.7%), married (74, 48.7%), with more than two children (36, 23.7%), one minimum wage (MW ) (75, 49.3%), secondary education (56, 36.9%), and catholic (97, 63.8%)
Summary
Quality of life (QL) is a complex construct which involves self-satisfaction of individuals in relation to their lives and the multiple factors which comprise it, such as health, cultural, social, and psychological values[1]. Quality of life can be compromised by the appearance of a stoma, since this procedure changes the body’s working and body image, which may cause physical, psychological, and social impact. According to data of the Globocan report, by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), colorectal neoplasm was the third most common form among men (663,904 cases, 10% of the total) and the second most common in women (571,204 cases, 9.4% of the total) worldwide[4]. In Brazil, this type of neoplasm has estimates of 40,990 new cases for 2020–2022, 20,520 in men and 20,470 in women[5]
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