OBJETIVO: analisar a qualidade de vida em indivíduos com paralisia facial periférica crônica adquirida. MÉTODO: foram selecionados, por meio de triagem, 12 indivíduos com paralisia facial periférica adquirida na fase de sequela, com etiologias de paralisia facial de Bell e Schwannoma após exérese. Foi verificado o grau da paralisia facial periférica adquirida de acordo com House & Brackmann9, além de ter sido realizada entrevista com perguntas fechadas, para verificar se havia interferência da paralisia facial na convivência social de cada indivíduo. O tipo de estudo foi transversal e, os testes utilizados foram o não-paramétrico de Mann-Whitney e o teste exato de Fisher, com o nível de significância de 5%. RESULTADOS: os graus da paralisia facial foram divididos da seguinte forma: I-II (Normal a Disfunção leve), III-IV (Disfunção moderada a moderadamente severa) e V-VI (Disfunção severa a paralisia total). Nas respostas quanto ao prejuízo nas atividades profissionais e pessoais, indivíduos com face normal a disfunção leve por paralisia facial de Bell responderam não ter prejuízo para suas atividades; na disfunção moderada a moderadamente severa todos responderam muito prejuízo e na disfunção severa a paralisia total, um indivíduo respondeu muito prejuízo. Na paralisia facial por Schwannoma no grupo classificado como disfunção leve, todos responderam nenhum prejuízo e na disfunção severa à paralisia total, um indivíduo respondeu muito prejuízo para tais atividades. CONCLUSÃO: a paralisia facial periférica crônica adquirida interferiu na qualidade de vida dos indivíduos com graus considerados mais graves.
Concern about the quality of life seeks the appreciation of it in a broader movement than controlling symptoms, decreasing mortality rate or increasing lifespan. In this context, the quality of life of individuals affected by facial paralysis, a common disease in the world, is inserted with no distinction of gender or age. The integrated work of professionals can enhance the healthcare process thus generating changes in the treatment towards the patient's quality of life. This study was carried out through electronic search in the databases of Pubmed, via the National Center for Biothecnology Information (NCBI); Lilacs (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences), and SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online). A search tool was offered by the National Library of Medicine, by means of which the combination of the descriptors facial paralysis, quality of life, health workers, interprofessional relationship, cooperative behavior, patient care team was performed in a varied way in order to detect the largest possible number of publications.Evidence showed up few studies regarding to a relation among all addressed words. In general, the literature review indicated that the interprofessional work can favor the resizing of the relations among different contents, thus contributing to the overcoming of knowledge fragmentation. The interprofessional work is reckoned to be essential for the development of a workforce in the scope of which professionals work together in order to properly assist the integral healthcare.
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