[en] The General Council of Nursing has claimed that in Spain there are approximately 100.000 ostomized people, increasing this number every year in around 15.000 patients. Taking into account this prevalence, the holistic view that characterize the nursing work and the previous evidence that there is a decreasing tendency in the quality of life status of this group of population, to know which are the areas that are affected after the opening of the stoma would provide us the guide to turn our nursing interventions into a better attendance, achieving more satisfaction from the patient. Principal goal: the major objective of this research is to know how the ostomized people quality of life is affected in the Health Care Area of Ferrol through the Stoma-QOL questionnaire. Specific goals: • Determine which are the problems that the patients have to face every day. • Know which are the changes lived by the patient in relation to their quality of life perception. • Determine the potential differences between the Health Care Area of Ferrol and the rest of health care areas in Galicia in relation to ostomates quality of life. • Looking for the needed information to reconduct the nursing care to those needs that are being experienced by the patients through medical education and support focalized into the point that are creating a major concern for the ostomate. Metodology: A study of quantitative methodology would be conducted, the main tool would be the administration of a validated questionnaire for the evaluation of the quality of life of ostomates, the target of the research would be the ostomized people who go to consult in the Health Care Area of Ferrol that has been operated in the last 10 years.

[gl] Segundo o Consello Xeral de Enfermería, en España hai aproximadamente 100.000 persoas ostomizadas, incrementándose esta cifra cada ano en 15.000 doentes. Dada a recorrencia desta situación, tendo en conta a visión holística que caracteriza a enfermaría e a evidencia previa de que existe un detrimento da calidade de vida deste colectivo, coñecer cales son os aspectos que vense afectados trala apertura dun estoma poderá guiarnos para reconducir a intervención enfermeira cara uns coidados de calidade, conseguindo unha maior satisfacción do paciente. Obxectivo principal: o obxectivo principal deste estudo é coñecer como vese afectada a calidade de vida dos pacientes ostomizados da Area Sanitaria de Ferrol a través do cuestionario Stoma-QOL Obxectivos específicos: • Determinar cales son os problemas ós que os pacientes ostomizados teñen que enfrontarse na súa rutina diaria. • Coñecer os cambios experimentados polo paciente en relación a percepción da súa calidade de vida. • Determinar as posibles diferencias que a Área Sanitaria de Ferro, presenta en relación có resto de áreas galegas de saúde no que respecta a calidade de vida do paciente ostomizado. • Atopar a información necesaria para dirixir a atención enfermeira a aquelas necesidades sentidas do paciente, tratando con isto, mellorar a súa calidade de vida, mediante educación sanitaria preventiva e apoio focalizado naqueles puntos que susciten una maior preocupación para o doente ostomizado. Metodoloxía: Levarase a cabo un estudio con metodoloxía cuantitativa mediante a administración dun cuestionario validado específico para a avaliación da calidade de vida do doente ostomizado. A poboación de estudo serán aqueles pacientes portadores de ostomías dixestivas tratados na Area Sanitaria de Ferrol que foron intervidos nos últimos 10 anos.