Grupo de psicoeducação e suas implicações no cotidiano de portadores de transtorno afetivo bipolar / Psychoeducation Group and its implications in the daily lives of people with Bipolar Affective Disorder.

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2009

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The Bipolar Affective Disorder (BD), known for its chronicity, complexity and high levels of morbidity and mortality, is one of the main causes of incapability in the world, generating a significant impact in the sick peoples lives, as well as a great burden to the family and to the society in general. There are increasingly evidences that this disorder course can be changed by psychoterapic approaches, such as the psychoeducation, that promotes the increase of the occupational and social functioning, as well as the capacity to deal with stressful situations. Therefore, this study aim was to indentisy the implications of the psychoeducation group in the daily lives of the people with Bipolar Affective Disorder. For this, we opted for a qualitative nature study, like Case Study. Twelve people with Bipolar Affective Disorder, who attended the Psychoeducation Group developed in the Medicine University at São José do Rio Preto (FAMERP), were included in this study. In order to collect the data, some semi-structered, recorded interviews, whole transcripted by the researcher, were made and later on they were considered by means Subject Matter Analysis. The results pointed to the consequences of the BD in peoples lives related to the routine change, the hope to find the cause of all the suffering, the prejudice suffered inside and outside the family, the guilt feeling the sick ones have, as well as the influence in the interpersonal relationships, in the study and in the job. Besides it, as they live the treatment, it is notorious the not adherence historic, the negative experiences related to some ways of help, the overestimation of the medicine treatment, the strong hope of cure and the search for other kinds of help. Related to the implications of the psychoeducation group in the daily life of people with BD, this study showed that such group experience favored the acquisition of knowledge about BD; the sickness awareness and adherence to the treatment; the fulfillment of positive changes in life, the possibility to help other sick people and benefit from the learning built in the group; the discovery of other realities and facing strtategies, obtained by means of experience exchanges among the participants; the hope to extend the possibilities to access information by means of the community. Comprehending these subjects perceptions on the group influence in their daily lives will favor the enrichment of this program focused on the community and then contribute to the mental health practice at this moment of transformations and building of a psychosocial paradigm.

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psicoeducação saúde mental mental health transtorno bipolar enfermagem psychoeducation bipolar disorder nursing

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