KMID : 1035120130130040304
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Asian Oncology Nursing 2013 Volume.13 No. 4 p.304 ~ p.312
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The Experiences of Adolescents¡¯ Suffering from Cancer: Breaking out of the withdrawn Ego
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Kim Yoon-Jung
Kwon Hye-Jin
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe and explore the experience of adolescents with cancer.
Methods: This study was based on the grounded theory by Strauss & Corbin (1998). The subjects were 13 adolescents including in and out-patients of a university hospital diagnosed with cancer.
Results: ¡®Getting changed¡¯ and ¡®getting deviated¡¯ were found to be the causal conditions. ¡®Inclination¡¯, ¡®self-reliance¡¯, and ¡®hope¡¯ were identified as contextual conditions, ¡®shrinking feeling¡¯ as the core phenomenon, ¡®awareness of disease¡¯, ¡®self-consciousness¡¯, and ¡®getting understanding and love¡¯ as intervening conditions, ¡®negligence¡¯, ¡®separation¡¯, ¡®self-management¡¯, and ¡®inspiration¡¯ as the strategies and ¡®being shirk¡¯, ¡®getting back¡¯, and ¡®going forward¡¯ as consequences. ¡®Breaking out of the withdrawn ego¡¯ was the core category in this study.
Conclusion: This study provides a framework for the development of individualized nursing interventions for ¡®Breaking out of the withdrawn ego¡¯ to care for adolescents with cancer. Finally adolescents with cancer are ¡®reborn¡¯ with a more mature ego.
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KEYWORD
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Adolescent, Neoplasms, Life Experience
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