Repercussões do tratamento fisioterapêutico na qualidade de vida de portadores de doença pulmonar crônica: a percepção do paciente

Abstract

This monograph presents the results of the survey, whose aim was to analyze the repercussions of physiotherapy on quality of life of patients with chronic lung disease through awareness of ourselves in relation to treatment. Is constituted by the introduction, which is located on the constituent elements of the work, followed by the scientific article to be submitted to periodical area, closing statements, references, annexes and appendices. The scientific article provides the methodological avenues of research, which is characterized as qualitative and quantitative, and was performed with 9 subjects with chronic lung disease, age 51 ± 12.34 years. The patients were submitted to questionnaires Mini-Mental State and Saint George's Respiratory Questionnaire modified (SGRQm), and individual semi-structured narrative interview. The qualitative data were interpreted using content analysis from a system of categorization, and quantitative data using descriptive analysis, expressed in percentage, mean and standard deviation. The survey results show high scores on the questionnaire SGRQm, reflecting impairment of quality of life. Two categories of qualitative analysis emerged from the narratives: "Lung disease and quality of life: perceptions understood," and "The Physiotherapy and the quality of life of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease", where realized the negative influence of disease on quality of life of individuals, and the contribution of physiotherapy to improve this condition. It can be concluded that physiotherapy provided better quality of life for patients with chronic lung disease, according to their perceptions, for assisting in reducing symptoms, greater autonomy to develop activities, facilitate interpersonal relationships and control the disease.