SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.37 issue3Young people's experiences in antiretroviral therapy for HIV: a phenomenological studySexual and reproductive health of adolescents: perceptions of nursing professionals author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

Related links

  • On index processCited by Google
  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO
  • On index processSimilars in Google

Share


Avances en Enfermería

Print version ISSN 0121-4500

Abstract

ARRUDA SOARES, Daniela et al. Therapeutic itineraries of women with cervical neoplasms in Bahia, Brazil. av.enferm. [online]. 2019, vol.37, n.3, pp.333-342. ISSN 0121-4500.  https://doi.org/10.15446/av.enferm.v37n3.78149.

Objective:

to analyze the therapeutic itineraries of women with cervical neoplasms (NCU) from treatment, in the southwest region of Bahia, Brazil.

Materials and methods:

qualitative descriptive and exploratory study carried out in a unit of high complexity in oncology, which is a reference for the southwest region of Bahia. Five women undergoing treatment for NCU were interviewed and data from semi-structured interviews and field diary records were collected from July to August 2017. A categorical thematic analysis was adopted.

Results:

two empirical categories emerged: Symbolic aspects and experiences of women undergoing NCU treatment and Search for NCU treatments. Outsourcing of signs and meanings of the disease from biomedical and supernatural elements, experiences of illness characterized by feelings of pain and suffering, overcoming and coping, and activation of therapeutic strategies of empirical, popular and biomedical character, were results of the study.

Conclusion:

itineraries based on connections with family members, health professionals, community members, and religiosity, denote that there are no unique and defined patterns in the paths of care search, and that they can allow a nearest sense, ways to treat the disease and therapeutic strategies valued and triggered by these women.

Keywords : Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Uterin Cervical Neoplasms; Health Services Accessibility; Papanicolaou Test (source: DeCS, BIREME).

        · abstract in Portuguese | Spanish     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )