Bem-estar subjetivo e estratégias de enfrentamento de (ex) portadores de Hanseníase após diagnóstico.

Abstract

Introduction: The millennial disease leprosy, called for many centuries by leprosy, still brings simultaneously rooted to its name, the prejudice and discrimination of those that have developed. Even today, represents a serious public health problem in Brazil, because in addition to the aggravating factors inherent in the things are in development, it was emphasized the psychological repercussions caused by physical sequelae of the disease, thus contributing to the reduction of self-esteem and well-being of patients and ex. Objetivo: describe the levels of well-being subjetivo and the strategies of enfrentamento used by (ex) portadores de hanseniase after the diagnosis. Metodologia: it is an exploratory study and descriptive, with approach quanti-qualitativa, developed the level domiciliar on the part of the participants who are resident in the districts Guanabara, Frei Damiao, Gypsies, Jardim Iracema, Varzea da Cruz, Banking, Centro, Station, Jardim Sorrilandia I I , Sao Jose, locados in the municipality of Sousa-PB. The population has been formed by all the carriers and exportadores de hanseniase diagnosed, notified and cadastrados in health units of the said city between the period from January 2009 to September 2011, comprising the universe of 21 usuarios. Of This total, only 13 people have been selected by means of a sample nonintentional probability to set the sample. The data were collected from medical records in november 2011 by means of a questionnaire semi-structured composed of issues and sociodemographic, clinical-operational issues, subjetivas and by the scales of e Afetividade, Satisfaction with the Life and Modes of Enfrentamento, and analysed by means of the programme Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), version 16. The study was approved by the Comite de Etica em Pesquisa do Hospital Universitario Alcides Carneiro da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande - UFCG, under the paragraph 20111410-044. Results: The main results have proved to be a profile of participants adults, female, married, not a reasonable level of literacy, cor parda, the home, rent of one or two minimum wages, three children, live with the family in the urban area and in own house, practitioners of catholic doctrine, classified as paucibacilares, of the way dimorfa. After the analysis has been found to have many of those interviewed normally live together with a hanseniase, thus demonstrating not to suffer prejudice and adotarem strategies of targeted enfrentamento always in the cure of the disease, in the meantime, some patients have reported to feel embarrassment about the existing patches in their bodies, fear of not to be good, others are still have said sad for not being able to work. Still, it has been pointed out that the holders and ex buscaram not the health services to the prevention of diseases or health promotion, and yes, acoes curative/biomedical, and the unit only after the confirmation of the medical and not when presented the symptoms. Conclusion: It is concluded that, in this way, the need for a link between the equipes de saude, the family and the patient. That being the case, the health and well-being of these patients and ex deserve special attention, so that the same does not feel that they are wrong, and an appropriate knowledge of the disease, by which is why then the portadores de hanseniase may make appropriate strategies for enfrentamento of their problems.