Exploring the psychological experience in hemodialysis patients from phenomenological psychology

Autor: Hung-I Lee, 李弘毅
Rok vydání: 2014
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 102
Purposes: This article is aimed to understand existential experiences of the person who suffered from end-stage renal disease and under regularly hemodialysis through the insiders’ views and it is hoped to back to the patients’ life-world. It is estimated there are nearly 60,000 people under regular hemodialysis in Taiwan. To take care of their physical and psychological experience is the major issues from psychological health professionals and clinical practice. Methods: The study is conducted by the hermeneutic phenomenological analysis method through purposive sampling. Ten (7 female and 3 male) chronic hemodialysis patients who agreed the informed consent were interviewed at once to two times. The depth interviews lasted for 60 to 90 minutes. Verbatim was transcribed and analyzed. Results: The results presented situated structure into several themes, namely," The field of physical spatialization and emotional differentiation ", "The action of imaginative becoming and life transforming ", "Fistula as heterogeneous interaction and caring act channel", " Emotional economy of adjust depletion and habitual adaptation ", "The existential experience of embodied time "," The utmost forced out of the living conditions and the style of the body "," Dialysis body as ethical experience ". It is showed hemodialysis patients’ diversity experiences intertwined with body and psychological situated situations. It is meant the illness experiences went beyond the medical regimen. Return to daily life government is the enactment life politics for the participants. It is implicated the vision of the ethical healing is the cornerstone of being-in-the-word rather than the medical positivism. Ethical self for being is proposed to promote the anima caring.
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