ABSTRACTBackground: People with colorectal cancer undergoing rectum amputation get a permanent Colostomy, which affects the social life. It may be valuable for health care what these people experience living with Colostomy in order to provide the greatest possible support. Objective: The aim of this study is to describe how people who received a Colostomy experience their daily lives and the support they have received from the health services.Method: Qualitative interview study with six people, with a descriptive phenomenological approach.Results: The analysis of the interviews about how it's like to live with a Colostomy resulted in three themes: 1) Living with a Colostomy gives an uncertainty that affect the social life, 2) Physical and psychological impact of getting a Colostomy and 3) Support for health care and relatives.Conclusion: Subjects had a positive attitude towards life, which contributed to that they could adjust to living with a Colostomy and feel a meaningfulness of life. The study shows that all the interviewed people overall were satisfied with the information provided by the healthcare personnel. It was good with both oral and written information and very appreciated with repeated information. One aspect that could be improved was the information given aboute the closure of anus during surgery and the following complications.

ABSTRACTBackground: People with colorectal cancer undergoing rectum amputation get a permanent Colostomy, which affects the social life. It may be valuable for health care what these people experience living with Colostomy in order to provide the greatest possible support. Objective: The aim of this study is to describe how people who received a Colostomy experience their daily lives and the support they have received from the health services.Method: Qualitative interview study with six people, with a descriptive phenomenological approach.Results: The analysis of the interviews about how it's like to live with a Colostomy resulted in three themes: 1) Living with a Colostomy gives an uncertainty that affect the social life, 2) Physical and psychological impact of getting a Colostomy and 3) Support for health care and relatives.Conclusion: Subjects had a positive attitude towards life, which contributed to that they could adjust to living with a Colostomy and feel a meaningfulness of life. The study shows that all the interviewed people overall were satisfied with the information provided by the healthcare personnel. It was good with both oral and written information and very appreciated with repeated information. One aspect that could be improved was the information given aboute the closure of anus during surgery and the following complications.

ABSTRACTBackground: People with colorectal cancer undergoing rectum amputation get a permanent Colostomy, which affects the social life. It may be valuable for health care what these people experience living with Colostomy in order to provide the greatest possible support. Objective: The aim of this study is to describe how people who received a Colostomy experience their daily lives and the support they have received from the health services.Method: Qualitative interview study with six people, with a descriptive phenomenological approach.Results: The analysis of the interviews about how it's like to live with a Colostomy resulted in three themes: 1) Living with a Colostomy gives an uncertainty that affect the social life, 2) Physical and psychological impact of getting a Colostomy and 3) Support for health care and relatives.Conclusion: Subjects had a positive attitude towards life, which contributed to that they could adjust to living with a Colostomy and feel a meaningfulness of life. The study shows that all the interviewed people overall were satisfied with the information provided by the healthcare personnel. It was good with both oral and written information and very appreciated with repeated information. One aspect that could be improved was the information given aboute the closure of anus during surgery and the following complications.

AbstractThe aim of this literature review was to describe the quality of life in stoma patients after stomasurgery. Different combinations of the keywords ?stoma?, ?Quality of Life?, ?stomasurgery? were used when searching in the databases Medline, Cinahl, Academic Search Elite and PubMed. A total of nineteen articles were used in the result. Fifteen studies had comparing design and four studies had describing design.