“…Data were collected in the postoperative period, both in hospitalization (immediate postoperative period) or in the community (after clinical discharge), using the Assessment Form of the Self-Care Competence in the Person with a Tracheostomy (Queirós, Santos, Brito, & Pinto, 2015), which was designed within the scope of a Master's thesis in the Nursing School of Porto. The form consists of two parts: the first part consists of the participants' characterization through sociodemographic variables (such as age, marital status, level of education, profession, and professional status), clinical variables (clinical diagnosis, type of surgery, type of ostomy, time elapsed since ostomy), health monitoring variables (preoperative nursing consultation, prior contact with ostomized patients), and other variables, such as the existence of informal caregivers; the second part consists of the assessment of the tracheostomy self-care competence in its six areas: (A) Knowledge; (B) Self-monitoring; (C) Interpretation; (D) Decision-making; (E) Execution; and (F) Negotiation and Use of Health Resources.…”