Total family risk in families with women diagnosed with breast cancer Riesgo familiar total en familias con mujeres diagnosticadas con neoplasia de mama

Abstract

Objective: To determine the total family risk with women diagnosed with breast cancer, that attend an oncological health center in the city of Barranquilla. Materials and Methods: The study was descriptive, cross-sectional with a quantitative approach. The instrument of Total Family Risk RFT 5-33 was used. The universe was composed by families with women diagnosed with breast cancer. The sample were 41 families integrated by 154 members; the study was approached as a census, and not through samples, because the access to the information in its entirety was viable. Results: The results showed that the families, in their majority are from type 2. 68% of the patients categorize their families as threatened, 5% as families of high risk, and 27% of the families as low risk. Conclusion: The data found in this research, is important for the families, which will allow to establish actions and activities to orientate and implement processes of specific attention, with the purpose of taking care of the families in order to keep them healthy and in a level of low risk; also, to develop controls and monitoring, to those families that have a high risk of threat through actions of promotion and prevention of the disease in a broad manner. Consequently, more aggressive programs of prevention and promotion must begin, especially with the families that attend in search of medical support for this condition; this way breast cancer cases can be diagnosed early and proceed to the proper treatment.