To have a colostomy: transformation corporality

Abstract

Justification: The person with colon cancer with a colostomy required to recognize your physical body felt transformed and lived corporeality. Objetives: Describe transformative processes and meanings of corporeality, and meaning attributed to a colostomy. Methodology: Phenomenological study of 8 participants, content analysis to saturation. Henri Lefebvre y Martin Heidegger theoreticals references. Results: The product is the central category “felt transformation of the corporeality of the person with colon cancer.” Changes in corporeality acquire a new meaning to adapt to your body, experience of corporeality. Conclusions: Changes in the body and corporeality to have a colostomy, and lack of control in your life triggered a personal and social crisis. Redefining health can be acquired through nursing empathetic, caring and understanding that enable people to adapt in a more timely and effective manner

Keywords

• Transformación
• Corporalidad
• Cáncer de colon