OLIVEIRA; GOMES; CASARIN; SIQUEIRA |
2010 |
Chronic Chagas disease carrier life: possible nursing actions for a healthy life |
Two municipalities of Rio Grande do Sul |
To know how Chagas’ disease patients live and to outline possible nursing actions for a healthier life |
A descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach. Participants answered the semi-structured interview. |
10 patients with chronic Chagas’ disease |
Retirement, diagnosis of the disease, clinical form, physical pain, daily activities |
Early retirement of individuals affected by Chagas’ disease is not enough to defray the cost of the disease. Most patients with the chronic form become aware of their condition belatedly, after the development of symptoms or when seeking, by chance, health services. All subjects reported feeling pain in the various body segments. The individuals affected, with emphasis on the cardiac patients, showed a poor performance of daily activities and at work. |
AMATO; AMATO NETO; UIP |
1997 |
Evaluation of the quality of life of patients with Chagas disease submitted to heart transplantation |
Heart Institute of the Hospital das Clínicas, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo |
To analyze the situation of patients with Chagas’ disease submitted to transplantation and who were alive |
The interview with the members of the sample was adopted as a collection tool |
11 patients affected by Chagas disease undergoing heart transplantation |
Heart transplant |
Patients with Chagas disease treated with heart transplantation showed improvements in the limitations of activities and life prospects |
MAGNANI; OLIVEIRA; GONTIJO |
2007 |
Representations, myths and behaviors of the patient undergoing pacemaker implantation in Chagas disease |
Pacemaker Outpatient Clinic of the Hospital das Clínicas of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
To evaluate the incorporation of pacemakers in the life of individuals with Chagas disease |
Ethnographic qualitative research, based on an open-ended interview. |
15 patients with chronic chagasic heart disease with pacemakers |
Social representations about Chagas’ disease, use of pacemaker, social support, religious beliefs |
Social representations elaborated around the disease trigger psychological damages that establish barriers in the life dynamics of patients. As for social bonds, family and friends are in solidarity with the affected individual, while the labor relationships are weakened.In faith, the subject seeks answers to the disease condition. Faced with the need to use the pacemaker, the initial idea is that one has a fragile heart. Over time, however, it becomes a natural extension of the body and is visualized as the source of life. |
OLIVEIRA; S. ABREU; G. ABREU; ROCHA; RIBEIRO |
2011 |
Health-related quality of life in Chagas’ disease |
Hospital das Clínicas of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Orestes Diniz (CTR-DIP) and the Center for the Treatment and Reference of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases |
To define the quality of life profile of patients infected with Chagas disease |
A cross-sectional study was performed in which the patients underwent clinical examination, ECG, Holter, Doppler and echocardiogram monitoring and autonomic function tests, in addition to having answered the Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLWHFQ) andMedical Outcomes Study 36-item short-form (SF-36) questionnaires |
126 patients with Chagas’ disease and 21 in the control group |
Gender, tests’ abnormalities |
Being a woman was characterized as a risk for worse quality of life scores in the physical, mental and emotional realms. Changes in the electrocardiogram were not related to the quality of life deficit. An abnormal Doppler echocardiogram, ventricular arrhythmia and worse functional classification triggered a poorer quality of life. |
ARAÚJO; ANDÓ; CASSAROTTI; MOTA; BORGES; GOMES |
2000 |
ACHEI Program: Chagasic Care with Comprehensive Education in the Municipality of Maringá and Northwest Region of Paraná, Brazil |
Laboratory of Chagas’ disease at the State University of Maringá (UEM) |
To report the experience of implanting a psychosocial support group for the care of patients with Chagas’ disease and to describe the patients’ profile |
Questionnaires were carried out and medical records of the participants were examined |
131 patients with Chagas Disease |
Diagnosis, disinformation, stigma, changes in tests |
The shock caused by the diagnosis of the disease is aggravated by misinformation and stigma about the disease. Discrete changes in electrocardiogram and chest radiographs were related to the benignity of the disease |
FIALHO; TURA; SOUSA; C. R.OLIVEIRA; SOARES; G. R. OLIVEIRA et al. |
2012 |
Effects of a program of exercises on the functional capacity of patients with chronic chagasic heart disease assessed by cardiopulmonary test |
Evandro Chagas Clinical Research Institute and the National Institute of Cardiology (INC) |
To evaluate the potential effect of an exercise program on the functional capacity of patients with chronic chagasic infection |
A prospective intervention study in which patients with chronic chagasic heart disease participated in an exercise program in cardiac rehabilitation. Subsequently, the functional capacity of the participants was evaluated. |
18 patients with chronic Chagas’ heart disease |
Performing physical exercises |
There was no improvement or worsening of cardiac symptoms by performing the physical exercise program |