Experiences of living with advanced colorectal cancer from two perspectives - Inside and outside
| Autor: | Katarina Sjövall, Håkan Olsson, Bibbi Thomé, Barbro Gunnars |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Male Gerontology medicine.medical_specialty Colorectal cancer media_common.quotation_subject Nursing Methodology Research Disease Nursing Life Change Events Interpersonal relationship Quality of life (healthcare) Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Interpersonal Relations Spouses Psychiatry Qualitative Research Normality Aged Shadow (psychology) media_common Oncology (nursing) business.industry Cancer General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Cancer and Oncology Quality of Life Female Colorectal Neoplasms business Attitude to Health Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Oncology Nursing; 15, pp 390-397 (2011) |
| ISSN: | 1462-3889 |
| Popis: | PURPOSE: To investigate how life situation by persons with advanced colorectal cancer and their partners is affected by living with the disease and its treatment. METHOD: Separate, individual interviews were made with persons with advanced colorectal cancer (n = 12) and their partners (n = 9) about how their daily lives were affected by the disease and its treatment. The verbatim transcripts were analysed using content analysis. RESULTS: Living with the illness of advanced colorectal cancer was experienced to be: being inside or outside the healthcare system, striving for normality and becoming conscious of life's value and vulnerability. Living as a partner was experienced as living in an altered relation and as living in the shadow of the disease. CONCLUSIONS: When one in a partner relation suffers from colorectal cancer, it changes life and life perspective for both partners. Partners need to be invited to and involved in the care. Cancer nursing should focus on supporting the strive for normality in daily life, as the disease and its' treatment may last for a longer period of time. Supporting the partner may benefit the person with cancer as well, to cope along the illness trajectory. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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