Tolerance Limits, Self-understanding, and Stress Resilience in Integrative Recovery of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Autor: Kari Skrautvol, Dagfinn Nåden
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Adult
Hermeneutics
Male
Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject
Disease
Anxiety
stress resilience
Inflammatory bowel disease
Cohort Studies
Interviews as Topic
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
recovery
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life (healthcare)
Recovery
Stress
Physiological
inflammatory bowel disease
tolerance limits
Health care
Integrative
Outpatient clinic
Medicine
Humans
integrative
030212 general & internal medicine
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Features
media_common
Advanced and Specialized Nursing
business.industry
Stress resilience
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Resilience
Psychological
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Tolerance limits
Complementary and alternative medicine
Quality of Life
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
Female
Psychological resilience
medicine.symptom
business
Stress
Psychological
Cohort study
Clinical psychology
Zdroj: Holistic Nursing Practice
ISSN: 1550-5138
Popis: People living with chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) experienced that knowledge about their embodied tolerance limits, diet, mental problem solving, and change in lifestyle together with integrative health care could promote recovery from their diagnosed disease in calmer periods of suffering. A hermeneutic approach was used to analyze interviews with patients living with IBD outside hospitals. Thirteen young adults between 18 and 45 years of age in calmer phases of IBD participated in the study. Three main themes emerged from the analysis of the interviews: (1) Understanding limits in embodied tolerance, (2) Restoring balance is creating a new equilibrium, and (3) Creating resilience through integrative care. Anxiety, depression, stress, insomnia, and fatigue are known consequences of IBD and create a lower degree of well-being for the patients. The digestive system is very important in establishing the interface between the body and the external world. Properly functioning digestion, psychosocial stress reduction, and sleep quality are important to rebuild a balanced immune system. Stress resilience during a patient's recovery from IBD requires self-understanding, self-recognition, and psychosocial support from health care professionals at hospital outpatient clinics.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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