Qualidade de vida de mulheres mastectomizadas.

Abstract

It is notorious that the mastectomy affects women somehow that she suffers physical, psychological and social changes, generating negative feelings that can interfere with their Quality of Life. The study aim to investigate the quality of life of mastectomized women in the city of Cajazeiras-PB. This is a descriptive type field study with a qualitative approach, which was conducted with 20 women mastectomized participating in the "Cajazeiras-PB Amigas do Peito Group”. Was used to data collection a semistructured interview, occurred during the months of June and July 2014 after the approval of the Comitê de Ética e Pesquisa of Faculdade Santa Maria under Protocol 680 978. For data analysis it was used the Collective Subject Discourse technique proposed by Lefèvre and Lefèvre, obtaining 10 collective discourses. All research stages faithfully followed Resolution 466/2012 of the National Health Council. The interviewed women had an age range between 36 and 70 years old when they were subjected to mastectomy, most were married, with higher education, had home secretary as profession, with a family cancer history and practiced Catholicism as religion. According to their clinical profile, most of them performed the surgery more than four years ago, did associated chemotherapy and radiotherapy after surgery and oral use of Tamoxifen and had not performed breast reconstruction. It was shown that mastectomy affects physically and psychologically the woman's life, causing the appearance of negative feelings, changes in Daily Life activities and her health status and the quality of life of these women were more affected after mastectomy, being noticed, by themself, normal currently. It was evident that these women have adopted a unique way facing the disease, since this situation leads to changes in their daily lives being needed a family and social support. It is concluded that the knowledge about these changes by the heath, family and society team allows the woman to be seen in an integral way for the improvement of their quality of life.