Quality of life of people with chronic ulcers.

Introduction: Patients with chronic ulcers have physical, social, and psychological changes that directly affect their quality of life.

Objectives: To evaluate the quality of life and analyze the association between personal and health characteristics in patient quality of life for those with chronic ulcers.

Method: A cross-sectional study, nonprobabilistic.

Pain prevalence, socio-demographic and clinical features in patients with chronic ulcers.

Chronic wounds are considered a worldwide epidemic and pain is the most frequently symptom referred by the patients who have this type of wound. The aim was to assess the prevalence of pain in chronic wounds and relate socio-demographic and clinical variables to pain. This is an analytical cross-sectional study, carried out in Basic Health Units (BHU), Family Health Strategy (ESF) and in a university hospital in two cities of Minas Gerais.