Livskvalitet hos stomiopererade patienter : En litteraturstudie

Sammanfattning: Abstract The aim of this literature review was to describe the quality of life in stoma patients after stomasurgery. Different combinations of the keywords “stoma”, “Quality of Life”, “stomasurgery” were used when searching in the databases Medline, Cinahl, Academic Search Elite and PubMed. A total of nineteen articles were used in the result. Fifteen studies had comparing design and four studies had describing design. Eighteen studies used questionnaires and one study used interviews for data collecting. Five studies did not concern the instruments' validity or reliability, fourteen studies referred to previously performed reliability's/validity tests. The sample sizes varied from 7 to 704 patients. Long-term quality of life in stoma patients shows contradictory results. Four studies showed that a brook uniting reservoir/pouch more or less did not change the quality of life. But that the body perception became better. One study showed that men´s Quality of Life was not effected by having a stoma, while women were effected to a greater extent, which led to a changed lifestyle and self-image among the women. Three studies showed that patients that are fecal incontinent has better social quality of life if they undergo stomasurgery. Four studies showed that patients with colon or rectal cancer and stoma had poorer quality of life than non-stoma cancer patients. Four studies showed that more therapy such as colostomy irrigation and relaxation gives better quality of life. Keywords; “Quality of Life”, “stoma” and “stomasurgery”