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KMID : 1003020180190020131
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Qualitative Research
2018 Volume.19 No. 2 p.131 ~ p.141
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Lived Experience of Cancer Recurrence in Mothers Caring a Pediatric Cancer Child
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Kim Mi-Hyun
Kim Kon-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: This hermeneutic phenomenological study aimed to understand the meaning and essence of the experience of mothers who took care of a child with recurred cancer.
Methods: Data were collected from in-depth interviews with five mothers caring a child who had gotten cancer recurrence during November, 2015. Data were analyzed by van Manen’s phenomenological methodology.
Results: Six essential themes were emerged: ‘overwhelmed by despair for cancer therapy to start again’, ‘seeking for better therapy at the end of the conflict’, ‘continuing the hard-to-get treatment inevitably and repeatedly’, ‘living as a child carer instead of the disease manager’, ‘realizing the family to take care of with a sick child’, ‘thank for today my family can be with an alive child with cancer’.
Conclusion: Based on these results, nurses could approach mothers experiencing their children’s pediatric cancer recurrence, who play a role as a helper for primary care. Also children patients could be intervened as direct-care objects and wholistic human beings.
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KEYWORD
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Mother, Child, Cancer, Recurrence, Phenomenology
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