The objective of this study was to evaluate socioenvironmental factors that interfere with the
severity of sickle cell disease and reduce the quality of life of individuals with this disease.
People with sickle cell disease were located by active search and by the snowball method,
interviewed with the objective of obtaining clinical and socioenvironmental data, as well as
having the blood collected, for diagnosis and determination of the haplotypes. Twenty-nine
people participated in the study, of whom 59% had difficulties to study, 45% had difficulty
finding employment or staying in it, 62% declared average home comfort level and 55% lived
in neighborhoods farther from downtown. People with the disease, classified as severe,
presented HbSS genotype (66%) and had intermediate comfort level classified as low, with
Bantu haplotype being the most common among them. Therefore, the socioenvironmental
profile of people with sickle cell disease was characterized by low or intermediate comfort
housing conditions associated with low per capita income. These factors are related to the loss
of the quality of life of the sick person, which favors the worsening of his clinical picture.
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