Psychological Instructions and reactive capacity of ostomized individuals and their relatives

DOI: 10.15343/0104-78092012362332339

Abstract

Promoting appropriate instructions about health, acceptance of reality and better quality of life for ostomized patients
are concerns of specialized health professionals. Under this perspective, some of the relevant aspects deserving studies
concern those patients’ sexuality, the relationship with partners and relatives, the preparation of e mourning resulting from
the loss of a function and rehabilitation for affective and professional life. The work of psychologists, especiallyin hospital
settings, may have a vital role in the search for the acceptance and understanding of the disease and in the struggle for the
full exercise of life.