[A quality of life evaluation in patients with a surgically formed large bowel stoma].

The investigation objective was estimation of the patients quality of life (QL), in whom a large intestine stoma was formed. Presence of colostoma constitutes a traumatizing factor, which reduce significantly the level of the patients social adaptation and QL. Most significant desadaptation was noted after formation of colostoma in patients, suffering trauma and nontumoral diseases of large intestine. The indices dynamics for the patients QL in presence of large intestine stoma reflects the sanogenesis processes and may serve as an indicator of clinical effectiveness of the conducted treatment.