Qualidade de vida após transplante de medula óssea: aspectos psicossociais

Abstract

This paper presents a bibliographic review on Quality of Life QL of patients having a bone marrow transplant POST-BMT. Eight selected articles were analyzed after searches done at the sites LILACS, BVS-PSI and SCIELO. The articles describe the beginning of the use of Marrow Bone Transplant as a nonexperimental practice on the 70s of last century and the improving of this treatment that, even though presenting a high rate of morbidity, signifies a hope of survival for many people having several hematologic diseases. There is a concern on offering not only more years of life to patients, yet granting more life to the years-to-live of those having a bone marrow transplant, considering the need of a reeducation process in all aspects of the individuals life. Theimportance is emphasized of transdisciplinary teams in attending patients pre-, during and post-BMT, and also the must of carrying out more researches in which the patient are seen under a biopsychosocial view, aiming to granting people having a BMT a effective support in order to improve their quality of life. This paper points out the lack of researches about this topic, specially when it comes to the marrow bone transplanteds education in the sense of learning new ways of living with himself and the others.