REPRESENTAÇÕES SOBRE QUALIDADE DE VIDA: VIVÊNCIAS DE MULHERES COM HEMIPARESIA / REPRESENTATIONS ON QUALITY OF LIFE: EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN WITH HEMIPARESIS

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Study of representations about quality of the womens life with hemiparesis after stroke. It presents an overview on the history of physical disability, emphasizing the meanings throughout history. It addresses the various concepts and meanings of quality of life as well as the impact of the stroke on quality of life. It was used for the definition of quality of life the conceptual model of Ferrans and Powers (1992). It is defined quality of life as a sense of well-being, a person who comes from the satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the areas of life. This is a research of a qualitative methodology. Participated of this study women with Hemiparesis, age among 20 and 59 years, with an average time of occurrence of the stroke of 12 months to 18 months and that receive attendance of rehabilitation in the Clinic-school Santa Edwiges-APAE. Opted for the feminine sex, because the historical review of the literature showed significantly the man as the greatest victim of stroke, leaving the research back in women, a fact that this contradicts the expectations on the part of women on a broader approach the quality of life that will help them. It was used the semi-structured interview and the questionnaire for the characterization of the studied group. The analysis was based information as reasons the analysis of contents of Bardin (1977). Identified the following thematic nucleus: meaning of the changes in the quality of womens life after the stroke and, the second thematic nucleus, re-meaning the quality of the womens life after stroke: rescue of citizens rights. It was verified, with the research, reflections about the life quality of the women interviewed, referenced to several objective and subjective aspects of the human life. It is confirmed, in this study, the multidimensional nature of the studied phenomena, referencing, that the presence of diseases, impairment and disability, dont necessarily, lead a reduction on quality of life. It follows that, for women, the quality of life is related to all the life aspects that should be reflected in the principle of access to citizenship.

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stroke saude materno-infantil mulheres com hemiparesia women with hemiparesis representations acidente vascular encefálico representações qualidade de vida quality of life

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