Stressors experienced by the family on the organs and tissues donation process for transplant / Fatores de stress vivenciados pelos familiares no processo de doação de órgãos e tecidos para transplante

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The objectives of this work were: (1) identify the stressors experienced by the family on the organs and tissues donation process for transplant; (2) to determine the hardest moment; (3) identify the facilities and difficulties the family had to decide about the donation and (4) verify the association of the interest variables with the experience of the family on the organs donation process. The sample was constituted by 16 (sixteen) families that made donation of organs in the Search of Organ Procurement Organization of Hospital das Clínicas, São Paulo - Brazil, in 2007. The interviews were done between March and June of 2008. To collect the information it was used a structured instrument that consisted of two parts: in the first one, we studied the sociodemographic characteristics of the family, the demographics and epidemiologic profile of the dead donor and in the second, questions about the experience and evaluation of the family since the admission until the liberation of the body. To verify the degree of associations between the interest variables, it was used the phi coefficient () and the contingency coefficient (CC). The following stressors were identified: dissatisfaction with the attending provided to the family and the donor, during the hospitalization (31,25%); to receive the information of the brain death in an inappropriate way (62,50%); difficulties to take the decision about the donation (31,25%); fear and suspicion of forging the clinical state of the brain death and the feeling of killing the person (18,75%); do not know the organ receivers (12,50%) and the delay to the body liberation (62,50%). It was noticed that the body liberation was the hardest moment experienced by the family (31,25%). The main facilitators to take the decision about the organs donation included: the altruism and the participation of the whole family in favor of it (62,50%) and the knowledge of the wish of the donor in life (31,25%). The difficulties found to decide for the donation were: family against the donation (18,75%), indecision about the brain death (12,50%) and none (68,75%). In the statistic analysis, it was verified a weak to moderate association between the interest variables and the experience of the family on the organs donation process

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nursing transplante de órgãos enfermagem estresse stress família morte encefálica family brain death organ transplantation

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