KMID : 0806120090390020217
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´ëÇÑ°£È£ÇÐȸÁö 2009 Volume.39 No. 2 p.217 ~ p.228
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Health Experience of Depressive Adolescents: Reflected from Newman¡¯s Praxis Methodology
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Kweon Young-Ran
Lee Chung-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose : Guided by Newman¡¯s theory of health as expanding consciousness, this study was done to explore the health experience of adolescents having depression.
Methods : The researcher engaged in six to eight in-depth interviews with six adolescents. To begin the dialog, the researcher asked each participant to recount the first important memory he/she had. All the narrative and diagram sharing between the researcher and participants were summarized according to recognized patterns and later elaborated in following interviews based on Newman¡¯s praxis methodology.
Results : The significant individual pattern of early health experience was during the binding stage. At the turning point, individual patterns for participants revealed a personal journey of self-discovery and then emergence of reflecting behaviors. After the turning point, the participants changed as they evolved from the initial period of disruption and disorganization to organization at a higher level. The results suggest that adolescents who are depressive find new ways of relating to friends, family, healthcare providers, and the community by expanding their consciousness.
Conclusion : Newman¡¯s praxis methodology is a good way of helping and studying adolescents with depression because it emphasizes participant-nurse/researcher partnership and pattern recognition as nursing practice.
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KEYWORD
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Newman¡¯s theory, Depression, Adolescent
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