Itinerário terapêutico de pessoas com úlcera venosa em assistência ambulatorial: contribuições à enfermagem

Abstract

The venous ulcer has high rate of recurrence and chronicity and is the main chronic injury of lower limbs. It causes changes in the lives of people affected because it demands care to optimize the healing, which requires that the people with venous ulcers seek for health care. Thus, it is justified interest in to know the therapeutic itinerary, in other word, the route that people do for cares and treatments. This study is based in anthropological literature and it had as theoretical support the model of Health Care System proposed by Arthur Kleinman. The question was: How is it build the therapeutic itinerary of people with venous ulcers in outpatient service of the Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil? And it aimed to describe the therapeutic itinerary of people with venous ulcers attended in outpatient service of the Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This project integrates macroproject "Attention to patients with venous ulcers: implications for the nursing care" of Research Group "Care, Nursing and Health" of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. It was field, qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research. The participants were 14 people with venous ulcers attended in the outpatient service - Ward I of the hospital. The data collection occurred between January and February 2013 through semi-structured interviews. The data were subjected to content analysis. The permission to realization of study was requested by Education and Research Direction of the Hospital and the research project examined by the Ethics Committee of Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, being registered with number 23081.007762/2011-41. It was considered the guidelines that involve human research, contained in Resolution 196/96 of the National Health Council. The results emerged categories which are presented in the form of articles. Article 1: Therapeutic itinerary of people with chronic health conditions: an integrative review; Article 2: Therapeutic itinerary: trend in nursing theses and dissertations; Article 3: Aspects addressed about venous ulcers in nursing theses and dissertations; Article 4: Therapeutic itinerary of people with venous ulcers in ambulatory care; Article 5: Influence of social support networks in the therapeutic itinerary of people with venous ulcers. Thus, it is expected that this research contribute to the deepening of understand of subject and to enable new understandings to the nursing, especially for health care aimed at socio-cultural reality of people with venous ulcers.