암에 걸린 청소년의 질병경험: 움츠린 자아에서 벗어나기

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe and explore the experience of adolescents with cancer. Methods: This study wasbased on the grounded theory by Strauss & Corbin (1998). The subjects were 13 adolescents including in and out-patients of a universityhospital 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 ‘Breaking out of the withdrawn ego’was the core category in this study.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This study provides a framework for the development of individualized nursing interventionsfor ‘Breaking out of the withdrawn ego’ to care for adolescents with cancer. Finally adolescents with cancer are ‘reborn’ witha more mature ego.

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