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http://dx.doi.org/10.14475/kjhpc.2016.19.2.127

The Lived Experience of Suffering of Family with Cancer Patients: Parse's Human Becoming Research Method  

Choi, Ye-Sook (Department of Nursing, Daejeon Health Institute of Technology)
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Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care / v.19, no.2, 2016 , pp. 127-135 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to discover the structure of the lived experience of suffering of families with cancer patients to develop a theoretical foundation that can be used to reinforce nursing practice for cancer patients and their families. Methods: A qualitative study was performed using Parse's research method. Participants were four families with cancer patients. From February 2009 through April 2010, data were collected via dialogical-engagement between participants and the researcher and analyzed through the extraction-synthesis and heuristic interpretation processes. Results: The structure was identified as follows. The families' lived experience of suffering was a process through which they experienced a psychological shock of cancer diagnosis and difficulties associated with reshuffled roles among family members, and made efforts to care for the patients. Conclusion: Amidst sadness, pain, anxiety, guilt, fear and agony, the families focused on the human-health-universe aspect and found meanings of their experiences as love, triumphant, responsibility and hope. As such, the study results suggest that the suffering of families with cancer patients is a human becoming process of positive transformation.
Keywords
Neoplasms; Psychological stress; Family; Qualitative research;
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