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KMID : 0367019980100010148
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Journal of Korean Academic of Adult Nursing
1998 Volume.10 No. 1 p.148 ~ p.159
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A Study on the Lived Experience in People with Leukemia
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to explore and de-scribe the lived experience of leukemia patients by eliciting their verbal description of the experience.
Participants were persons who were diagnosed with leukemia at the hospital and living at homeafter treatment. Data were obtained from interview of five leukemia patients and experience journals of 10 leukemia patients. Interview were tape recorded and transcribed verbation. The transcripts were analyzed by Colaizzi method.
Major theme clusters that were emerged from the analysis are "Urgency or Impendence", "Terribleness or Miserableness", "Uncertainty", "Searching for hope" and "Spiritual well being".
The results of this study may help nurse to implement more efficient nursing strategies for leukimia patients by deeply understanding their lived experience and to develop quality of life program for leukemia patients.
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