Integralidade do cuidado no pneumopata crônico: uma perspectiva psicológica

Abstract

The objective of this research was to verify if the psychological accompaniment and other professional performances would allow the decreased levels of anxiety and depression observed in the subject participants. The population comprised 26 subjects of both sexes, and the samples were constituted by 4 subjects participants, chronic lung disease patiences and assisted in the Physiotherapy Ambulatory of the Santa Maria’s University Hospital-HUSM. Characterised by a descriptive exploratory research with a qualitative and quantitative approach, using the technique of discourse analysis and by frequency distribution. For the sorting of the study were used the scale of Dyspnea, the Beck Anxiety Inventory and The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression. The monitoring occurred weekly for two months, with sessions of Brief Psychotherapy. Subsequently, 50% of the sample passed the level of moderate to mild anxiety, and the other half of mild (25%) and severe (25%) reached a minimum. As for depression, 75% went from mild to normal and 25% of mild to severe. It is been observed that psychological intervention favored the emergence of internal resources to deal with adversities in the lung disease.