RESUMO
Estudo sobre o cotidiano de ser hanseniano realizado com doentes em tratamento em uma Unidade de Saúde de Belém-PA que teve como objetivo compreender este cotidiano. Utilizou como referencial metodológico a fenomenologia e a hermenêutica de Martin Heidegger na análise compreensiva sobre o cotidiano do hanseniano. Evidenciou-se a perplexidade dos doentes ante sua doença, o medo de transmiti-la, a tentativa de ocultação de sua condição, as mudanças na rotina diária em conseqüência da doença e a submissão ao tratamento como a única forma de se verem curados.A interpretação mostrou que o sentimento de temor acompanha o hanseniano, pois ele teme o isolamento social que sabe que a hanseníase traz consigo e o modo de ser do impessoal nas relações sociais e com os profissionais de saúde
This is a study about the daily life of the Being-Leprous done with patients on treatment in one Health Unit of Belém Pará Brazil. The study aim was to understand this daily life. Phenomenology and hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger were the reference methodologies used comprehensive analysis of the daily life of the Leper. It became evident the perplexity of the patients in view of their disease, the fear of transmitting it, the attempt to hide their condition, the changes in their daily life as a consequence of Hansens disease and the submission to the treatment as the only hope for cure. The interpretation showed that fear comes with the leper, because the patient fears the social isolation, he/she knows what a diagnosis of Hansens disease brings along. Patients are aware of the impersonal treatment received in their social relations and with the health professionals.
Assuntos
Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Adulto Jovem , Cuidados de Enfermagem , Entrevistas como Assunto/métodos , Hanseníase/enfermagem , Acontecimentos que Mudam a Vida , Hermenêutica , SolidãoRESUMO
This article is about the effect of Hansen's disease on the personality of 29 patients of the Institute of Applied Leprology of Dakar, Foundation of the Order of Malta. This approach to the distress of these patients was done by an inquiry based on sociocultural and clinical variables and compared to a study composed of tubercular and psychiatric patients. This study reports four distress levels (loss of identity, loss of object, forlornness, culpability) which are distinguished by sex and age. The actual analysis of the experience of this distress shows the importance of support of the traditional representation of these leprous patients' psychology.