Author(s)

Sueli Mendes de Oliveira¹, Enéas Rangel Teixeira², Eliane Ramos Pereira², Josélia Braz dos Santos Ferreira^1,3*, Sandra Regina Terra Campos Nicolau¹, Jovíria Márcia Ferreira de Oliveira Padilha¹

¹Antônio Pedro University Hospital, Niterói, RJ, Brazil.
²Aurora de Afonso Costa Nursing School of the Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, RJ, Brazil.
³Miguel Pedro Municipal Hospital of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

This study analyzed the relationship between self-care in subjects who received a blood transfusion in a university hospital with their sociodemographic and health conditions. A descriptive and exploratory research with a qualitative approach was carried out in the Transfusion Ambulatory sector of the University Hospital in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro from July to November of 2014 with a sample size of 12 patients. Data were collected through a questionnaire of semi-structured questions; content analysis was based on the thematic approach. Sociodemographic data from subjects who received a blood transfusion were evaluated with respect to the education they received regarding self-care at home as well as their emotional balance in facing the health-disease process and their perspective on their quality of life. Educating subjects who receive blood transfusions requires that the medical professionals have an understanding of their patient’s socioeconomic and cultural condition. This information will contribute to a better understanding of self-care when blood transfusion is necessary.

Hemotherapy Service, Blood Transfusion, Nursing Care, Health Education

de Oliveira, S. , Teixeira, E. , Pereira, E. , dos Santos Ferreira, J. , Campos Nicolau, S. and de Oliveira Padilha, J. (2017) The Impact of Sociodemographic and Health Variables on Self-Care of Subjects Receiving Hemotransfusion. Open Journal of Nursing, 7, 294-306. doi: 10.4236/ojn.2017.72024.