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Changes in the Lives of Individuals with a Stoma and Their Spouses: A Qualitative Study.

Adv Skin Wound Care

May 2022

At the Gazi University Health Research and Application Center Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, Zehra Göçmen Baykara, PhD, RN, is Professor, Department of Nursing; Evrim Eyikara, PhD, RN, is Research Assistant, Department of Nursing; Aysel Ören Hin, RN, and Hülya Acarlar, RN, are Nurses; and Sezai Leventoğlu, PhD, is Professor. The authors have disclosed no financial relationships related to this article. Submitted January 25, 2022; accepted in revised form February 7, 2022.

Objective: Individuals with a stoma and their spouses experience various changes with regard to their new life situation. The authors aimed to determine the changes caused by stoma creation in the lives of individuals with a stoma and their spouses.

Methods: This study was carried out with individuals with a stoma (n = 15) and their spouses (n = 15) in a stoma therapy unit.

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