Experiences and coping with the altered body image in digestive stoma patients
ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the coping of stoma patients with the news about the ostomy, as well as to analyze the meaning and the experience of their new bodily reality. Method: qualitative phenomenological study undertaken through semistructured interviews with 21 stoma patients. The analysi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
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| Series: | Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692016000100438&lng=en&tlng=en |