Autocuidado e cuidado de pessoas com câncer e dispositivos médicos de alimentação

INTRODUCTION: Cancer and its treatment can affect the ability to feed, which require enteral nutritional therapy, requires appropriate self-care and care. Objective: to know the self-care/care of people with cancer using medical feeding devices in a city of the state of Minas Gerais. METHOD: qualitative investigation obtained by means of interviews recorded, using a semi-structured instrument, with people assisted in a reference center in oncology. RESULTS: built the central theme Requirements for self-care/universal care for health deviation: propelling and restraining forces and as sub-themes facilitators for self-care engagement and complicators for self-care engagement/care. CONCLUSIONS: the results contribute to the praxis of health professionals, especially nurses, to rethink the relevance of the guidelines in the process of transition from hospital to home and to recognize that each person has a differentiated of learning and all patients have the potential for care/self-care.