Objective:
Understand the daily life of the carrier-being of tuberculosis deprived of his freedom.
Methods:
The phenomenological research method and Martin Heidegger's hermeneutics were chosen for the analysis of twenty-two interviews of men living with tuberculosis in five prisons in the state of Pará, Brazil.
Results:
The results unveiled an intricate life in which patients see tuberculosis as a hard-to-accept condition, harder than confinement itself.
Conclusion:
The daily life of the carrier-being of tuberculosis deprived of freedom, though more specific, is not different from the manner all humans live: most of the time immerse into the daily life inauthentic way of being. To control tuberculosis in prisons it is necessary to deal with the singularities involving not only the disease process, but the dynamics of life in these places, most of the time characterized by hostility and violence in its different forms.
Tuberculosis; Prisons; Nursing; Qualitative research