Paternidades transitórias durante a vivência de homens estomizados por câncer intestinal

Abstract

Cancer diagnosis rates are increasing exponentially across the country. In the South region, cases of colorectal cancer have the second highest incidence in the male population and the removal of this population from health services intensifies the difficulty of early screening for the disease. Thus, a common outcome in these cases is the creation of an intestinal stoma. In this scenario, social relationships, focusing on fatherhood, are shaken when the change in body image changes the existential basis and these subjects tend to hide their ostomies in search of socially established masculine standards. This is qualitative research whose main objective is to analyze the transition to fatherhood during the experience of men with a stoma due to intestinal cancer. The research was carried out at the High Complexity Oncological Treatment Unit at the Hospital do Oeste de Santa Catarina with ten patients diagnosed with rectal cancer and who use a stoma, based on a semi-structured interview, with open questions, carried out based on an instrument with guiding questions. To carry out the data analysis, the transition analysis perspective, defended by Afaf Meleis, was used. As a result, it was found that participants recognize facilitators and inhibitors of fatherhood. This fact points to the need to pay attention to family matters with patients.