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This study aims to ascertain the resources of hope found and entertained by the myocardial infarction patient through their own efforts, so that their life span could be prolonged and they could have the better quality of life with their incessant will to take over the sick-role behavior of serious and chronic myocardial infarction relying on their resources of hope. The subjects of this study are those male patients who were hospitalized at one Hospital in Seoul for January-March of 1992, whose ages range over 30-60, whose first symptoms of disease appeared 6 days before, and who had their own insight into their diseases. The data for this study were collected through the undstructured open-ended interview with every patient for 3-4 times and 1-3 hours each time. The collected data were analyzed following Giorgi’s phenomenological analysis method. The results of this study are as follows : 1. The hope of subjects was found to be divided into the presently one and the futuristic one, in the dimension of time. Most of the resources of the resources of hope to be felt in the present time were the earthly ones, such as physician, health care team, family, visitors, physician’s skill, newly developed medical maes, efficiency of the advanced surgical operation and so forth. The most powerful resource of hope was the physician in charge. Most of the resources of hope to be felt in the future were earthly ones, such as the possibility of advancement of medical science, patient’s will to take over Suggestions for further studies are as follows : For the patients of reinfraction or of more heart attacks, it is necessary to ascertain what resources of hope still exsist among them.
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