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Body consciousness of people with intestinal stomach: A phenomenological study
Antonio Dean Barbosa Marques1,2, Rosendo Freitas de Amorim1, Fátima Luna Pinheiro Landim3
1Universidade de Fortaleza, Postgraduate Program in Public Health. Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
Objective:
to describe the bodily awareness of people with stomies.
Method:
a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, carried out in the Ostomized Association of the State of Ceará, through semi-structured interviews with ten people with intestinal stomies, according to Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological thinking.
Results:
two categories of analysis emerged: The body that I have, in which the sensations of deficiency, imperfection and bad odor add to the feeling of strangeness towards one's own body, affecting the way of being in the world of each deponent; and The body that others perceive, in which the stoma is seen as an embarrassing and complex experience, since it hampers daily activities and conviviality with other people.
Final Considerations:
The corporeal consciousness of Being-Stomp-in-the-world requires the movement to reconstruct the senses of the body from the body I have and from that which others perceive.
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