title: [How do asthmatic women experience the illness?].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Curso de Psicologia, UNISINOS. katia@cirrus.unisinos.br
authors.forename: Kátia Cristina Cordeiro
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.forename: Maria Lucia Tiellet
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Nunes
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D018927:Anti-Asthmatic Agents