[How do asthmatic women experience the illness?].
This study aimed to identify and understand the essence of the anguish of five asthmatic women, patients of the Pneumology Service of a hospital in Porto Alegre, and how they interact with the health professionals. It uses the qualitative methodology, with semi-structured interviews. The content analysis identified: a dependent relationship and an incidence of separation anguish demonstrated by the way the women deal with medication and the caregivers; some of the women's impediments; difficulties to describe the illness and asthma crisis. The separation anxiety and the dependent behavior of the patient must be understood by the caregiver.
Dias
Kátia Cristina Cordeiro
KC
Curso de Psicologia, UNISINOS. katia@cirrus.unisinos.br
Nunes
Maria Lucia Tiellet
ML
D000328:Adult; D018927:Anti-Asthmatic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001010:Anxiety, Separation; D001249:Asthma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D013224:Status Asthmaticus / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology
D018927:Anti-Asthmatic Agents