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KMID : 0806120140440030328
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대한간호학회지
2014 Volume.44 No. 3 p.328 ~ p.338
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An Analysis of Cancer Survival Narratives Using Computerized Text Analysis Program
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Kim Dal-Sook
Park Ah-Hyun
Kang Nam-Jun
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was done to explore experiences of persons living through the periods of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and selfcare.
Methods: With permission, texts of 29 cancer survival narratives (8 men and 21 women, winners in contests sponsored by two institutes), were analyzed using Kang’s Korean-Computerized-Text-Analysis-Program where the commonly used Korean-Morphological-Analyzer and the 21st-century-Sejong-Modern-Korean-Corpora representing laymen’s Korean-language-use are connected. Experiences were explored based on words included in 100 highly-used-morphemes. For interpretation, we used ‘categorizing words by meaning’, ‘comparing use-rate by periods and to the 21st-century-Sejong-Modern-Korean-Corpora’, and highly-used-morphemes that appeared only in a specific period.
Results: The most highly-used-word-morpheme was first-person-pronouns followed by, diagnosis·treatmentrelated-words, mind-expression-words, cancer, persons-in-meaningful-interaction, living and eating, information-related-verbs, emotionexpression-words, with 240 to 0.8 times for layman use-rate. ‘Diagnosis-process’, ‘cancer-thought’, ‘things-to-come-after-diagnosis’, ‘physician·husband’, ‘result-related-information’, ‘meaningful-things before diagnosis-period’, and ‘locus-of-cause’ dominated the life of the diagnosis-period. ‘Treatment’, ‘unreliable-body’, ‘husband · people · mother · physician’, ‘treatment-related-uncertainty’, ‘hard-time’, and ‘waiting-time represented experiences in the treatment-period. Themes of living in the self-care-period were complex and included ‘living-as-a-human’, ‘self-managing-of-diseased-body’, ‘positive-emotion’, and ‘connecting past · present · future’.
Conclusion: The results show that the experience of living for persons with cancer is influenced by each period’s own situational-characteristics. Experiences of the diagnosis and treatment-period are negative disease-oriented while that of the self-care period is positive present-oriented.
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KEYWORD
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Neoplasms, Survival, Personal narratives, Computers, Analysis
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