Sexualidade de portadoras de estoma intestinal definitivo: percepção de mulheres.

The study has the aim to investigate the changes that happen in women's life when they suffer definitive intestinal stomas and their implications in their sexuality. It's about a research made in field, at the University's Hospital of João Pessoa/PB, where ten women took place at this work. The data interpretation, was adopted the technique of analysis of contents of Bardin. The results have showed that women had to face, besides the change of intestinal traffic, change in the way of life, affecting their image and sexuality. So, acording to the importance of the point dicussed, the reflection and it's effects, need extremely attention trying to reduce the prejudice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]