Impacto da tuberculose na vida do doentes e familiares.

Abstract

Introducion: Surrounded by myths and taboos, tuberculosis aggregates impacts repercussions affect the lives of people in various aspects. These prove the stigma and prejudice, for enduring the social imaginary conception of a disease that deserves imprisonment by the high infectivity. Excluded, unless the carriers interact with the environment in which they live and family, have lower economic productivity and change the perception about himself. Such implications contribute to noncompliance with treatment and recurrence of the disease, making it impossible to break the chain of transmission and thus reducing cases. Objective: To understand the impact of tuberculosis on patients and family life. Methodology: This is a study of exploratory nature and descriptive qualitative approach, which was developed household level of all patients with tuberculosis in monitoring/ treatment registered in the Information System of Notification of Injuries and Strategies in Family Health municipality of Sousa (PB). Data were collected in the months of January and February 2014 through semi- structured interview and analyzed using the technique of content analysis proposed by Bardin (2009), respecting the ethical assumptions of Resolution No. 466/2012. Results: After successive readings were taken from four representative themes of the impact of the disease on patients' lives and family, namely, prejudice and exclusion, fear and low self-esteem, loss of work capacity, and family support. It is noticed that the impacts caused by tuberculosis significantly affect the way of life of patients, changing the way they interact, conditioning them to isolation and leaving them excluded from social life. Therefore, it was proved that prejudice and exclusion embedded in the narratives of patients showed a loss of psychological and socioeconomic order in their lives, in which they had to learn to live and still live with the pain and suffering arising from the fear of abandonment, of contagion and death , unemployment being the most severe form. Conclusion: Considering the impact of tuberculosis in various aspects, emerges an urgent need to incorporate strategies through comprehensive care, prioritizing the patient and not the disease, in order to minimize their impacts and contribute to their social reintegration, redeeming what was lost.