Introduction: A urostomy or urinary bypass consists of a surgically created opening
in the abdominal wall for urine output involuntarily. Which demands the use of
collecting equipment to collect the urine. Its purpose is the preservation of renal
function, temporary or permanent, external or internal, continents or incontinent.
Depending on the type of urostomy, there is a need for the use of collecting
equipment and protective and safety adjuvants or urinary catheters after surgery.
Objective: To describe the sociodemographic and clinical profile of people with
urostomy. Descriptive, exploratory study, with a cross-sectional design and
quantitative approach to the profile of people with stoma attended at a Nursing
Consultation, in a Reference Service of Belém-PA, from 2014 to 2016. Methods: The
data were collected together with the database of the research project Estomized
Profile in the Amazon Context. As an exploratory analysis, descriptive methods were
used to present data, worked and demonstrated in figures and tables. The
Committee of Ethics and Research with Human Beings of the Federal University of
Pará under the opinion No. 525.319 approved this study. Results: Among the 135
people with omen five men had urostomia, age group of 39 to 50 years, residing in
the metropolitan region of Belém, had incomplete elementary education with monthly
family income of up to one minimum wage. The primary cause of the urostomy was
neoplasm. Definitive transiliary urostomy predominated in all cases. The mean time
of use of the collecting equipment was 3 days, most reported being with altered skin
peristomy. Conclusion: This study points out the need to include their results in
planning health actions of the reference service in the city of Belém-PA.
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