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KMID : 1159920060070020091
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Korean Journal of Women s Health
2006 Volume.7 No. 2 p.91 ~ p.110
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The Lived Experience of Comfort of the Hospitalized Low-Income Elderly Women Living Alone
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Kim Eun-Ha
Shin Su-Jin
Kim Kon-Hee
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Abstract
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Introduction: This research aims to understand the meaning and essence of comfort experience of hospitalized low-income elderly women living alone. This study is Giorgi’s phenomenological research method and exploring the essence of phenomenon appears through the researcher’s scientific perspectives.
Method: The method of inquiry included: Sense of the whole: Breaking the meaning unit: Transformed meaning unit: synthesis of structure. The participants for this study were 5 elderly women living alone in municipal hospital who were in the age 65 over. Data for the exploration of the meanings of their ’comfort of hospitalized’ experience were collected by in-depth interview and observation from December, 2005 to May, 2006. Collected information was analyzed through phenomenological method procedure of Giorgi(2003, 2004).
Results: As a result 5 constituents and 12 sub-constituents, I scrutinized the relationships they made and synthesised the structure of meanings of comfort in chronical order, and realized that the essence of comfort the low-income elderly women living alone experienced. It was ’to alleviate the embodied mind pains thanks to the treatment of medical staff and the presence of patients allied to them, and then regain their life forces.’
Conclusion: The results presents new nursing perspective based on deeper understanding on comfort experienced by the low-income elderly women living alone.
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KEYWORD
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Low-income elderly, comfort, Lived experience
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