Abstract

SEGURA BARRIOS, Ilubith María  and  BARRERA ORTIZ, Lucy. A call for nurses to meet the health care of people in chronic disease its impact on quality of life. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2016, vol.32, n.2, pp.228-243. ISSN 0120-5552.

Abstract Objective: to describe the perception of people with chronic disease: diabetes and high blood pressure, compared to their quality of life, in a second-tier institution, the program of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, in Barranquilla (Colombia). Materials and methods: A descriptive approach. The informants were a total of 6 people, made up of two men diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and 4 women, 2 of them with hypertension, 2 diabetes mellitus. For data analysis, content analysis technique (14) was used. The data were systematized and processed through the Atlas tool T. The theoretical basis of is research is the model of health as expanding consciousness for the care of people in chronic disease, proposed by the nurse Margaret Newman and model results with quality of life in cancer survivors, proposed by Betty Ferrell were contrasted. Results: People in situation of chronic non-communicable disease, diabetes and hypertension, perceive their quality of life dimensions: physical: limitations and discomfort described; in the social: isolation, dependency, impaired sexual function; psychological: anxiety, hopelessness, depression and uncertainty; spiritual dimension: strength, faith, God heals. Conclusion: It is important that the nurse and the multidisciplinary team led Programs Health Promotion and Prevention disease, provide care where holistically taking into account all dimensions of people living with a disease chronic non transmissible, which will result in a better quality of life.

Keywords : people with chronic illness; perception; quality of life.

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