Quality of life of patients with neurogenic bladder on intermittent urinary catheterization in the rehabilitation process

Abstract

Multicenter project to be developed in Brazil and Portugal with the general objective of measuring the quality of life of the patients using the intermittent urinary catheterization with neurogenic bladder in rehabilitation process and measure the quality of life of their caregivers; and specific objectives: 1) to characterize sociodemographic and clinic of patients; 2) to characterize sociodemographic their caregivers; 3) to measure the quality of life of patients and their caregivers characterized; 4) compare the quality of life of patients and their caregivers Brazilian and Portuguese. Upon authorization by research ethics committee, the collect data will be held with all the patients using the intermittent urinary catheterization, in Brazil in a rehabilitation service in the state of São Paulo, and in Portugal, a rehabilitation center of the Hospital Rovisco Pais. For obtaining the data will be used two data collection instruments, a questionnaire on sociodemographic and clinical data and scale World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) has translated and validated in Brazil and Portugal. Will be included in the study all patients older than 18 years diagnosed with neurogenic bladder, using urinary catheters intermittent, registered in the service, and their caregivers. Patients and caregivers oriented will be included. Informed consent term will be used in this research. The data will be coded and entered into spreadsheets using excel and analyzed using descriptive statistics and the use of parametric tests and not parametric with using SPSS, version 11.5 (windows). The analysis of the WHOQOL-BREF, will be held by the original analysis. The discussion of the results of the research will be carried out with basis in the literature review, relevant to the proposed objectives. (AU)