BACKGROUND Living with an ostomy requires daily site and equipment care, lifestyle changes, emotional management, and social role adjustments. The Chronic Care Ostomy Self-Management Training Program (CCOSMTP) offers an ostomy self-management curriculum, emphasizing problem solving, self-efficacy, cognitive reframing, and goal setting. OBJECTIVES The qualitative method of content analysis was...

BACKGROUND Adolescents with IBD requiring ostomy surgery experience perioperative needs that may exceed those of patients experiencing other major abdominal surgery 1. This procedure requires ongoing and vigilant daily care and management. Gastrointestinal symptoms and complications impose psychological and social stresses on young patients 2, and the procedure results in body image changes and...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To measure the impact of telenursing on patients discharged with ostomies resulting from cancer treatment. DESIGN Quasi-experimental design with surveys. SETTING Large tertiary care center in the southwestern United States. SAMPLE 28 patients with cancer in two groups: traditional home health and home health plus telenursing. METHODS Recorded the number of home health...

Approximately 1 million people are living with an ostomy, and 100 000 to 130 000 new ostomies are created each year. The exact incidence and prevalence of complications are unknown but have been reported to be as high as 70% and to affect quality of life (QoL). Using convenience sampling methods, a descriptive study was conducted to explore QoL scores and peristomal complications reported by ad...

Background: In elective and emergency general surgery, bowel anastomoses are common procedures. Although several stoma-related issues may arise following stoma creation, establishing a is incredibly morbid. Aims Objectives: The study compares patients with diversion ileostomies (stomas) to those who had cover ileal loops without ostomies or delayed for large anastomosis compare the risks advant...

Objectives: To identify nursing interventions, their characteristics, and outcomes for promoting self-care in candidates a bowel elimination ostomy. Materials methods: A scoping review was carried out based on the Joanna Briggs Institute’s recommendations. For this, studies published Portuguese, English, Spanish Web of Science, CINAHL, Scopus databases without time limit were selected November ...

Introduction. Management of open abdomen (OA) with enteroatmospheric fistula (EAF) in morbid obese patient with comorbid disease is challenging. We would like to report the management of septic OA in morbid obese patient with EAF which developed after strangulated recurrent giant incisional hernia repair. We would also like to emphasize, in this case, the conversion of EAF to ileostomy by the h...

OBJECTIVE to assess self-esteem (SE) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in ostomized patients due to colorectal cancer. METHOD cross sectional research with a quantitative approach. Three instruments were used for data collection: one instrument containing sociodemographic and clinical data, Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale, and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Can...

PURPOSE To assess the cost-effectiveness of a ceramide-infused skin barrier (CIB) versus other skin barriers (standard of care) among patients who have undergone ostomy creation. DESIGN Cost-effectiveness analysis, based on a decision-analytic model that was estimated using data from the ADVOCATE (A Study Determining Variances in Ostomy Skin Conditions And The Economic Impact) trial, which in...