Enfrentando o câncer em família

• Ano de defesa: 2005
• Autor(a) principal: Molina, Maria Aparecida Salci
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual de Maringá; Brasil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem; UEM; Maringá, PR; Departamento de Enfermagem
• Palavras-chave em Português: Neoplasia; Mulher; Enfermagem oncológica; Cuidado domiciliar; Envolvimento familiar; Aspectos psicológicos; Família; Cuidado à família; Brasil.; Neoplasm; Woman; Family; Care with family; Oncologic nursing; Brazil.; Ciências da Saúde; Enfermagem
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.uem.br:8080/jspui/handle/1/2370

This work aims to build a representative theoric reference of changes occurred in the family context after the cancer diagnosis in woman. This is a qualitative research which used as theoric reference the Symbolic Interaction and Grounded Theory on Data as methodologic reference, basing on the following question: What has changed in your family context after cancer diagnosis? The study's informants, 10 women aged between 27 and 50 and 10 relatives who were indicated by them as significant people in their living with cancer. They were all selected from a record in a radiotherapy clinic of Maringá - PR. For the composition of the first sample group it was considered only and exclusively the fact of the woman be facing a cancer treatment, independent of the cancer type, its location, permanence and treatment period, as we tried to comprehend the meanings ahead of the changes noticed in the family context after the disease diagnosis. The other sample groups were composed from the theoric structure that was being built and are composed by women with disease reincindence and women who were found in weakness of neoplasm for more than five years. Data collection took from March to November 2005, using as techniques the attentive observation and open interview. The meetings took place in locals chosen by the informants. For data analyses the constant comparison method was adopted. The participation in different moments of women's lives and relatives in the living with cancer allowed us to understand this experience, which resulted in the trajetory following the cancer diagnosis in these people. The main changes occurred in this context were indentified as well, after this new event, which are present in the substantive theory developed "facing the cancer in family". During interpretations, it was possible to comprehend this phenomenon is composed by three interelated distinct processes, that is: detecting the disease, which is characterized as an emotional conflict phase with the detection of the disease diagnosis; noticing changes after cancer diagnosis, which points out adulteration in one's family that involves several aspects of life, among them, organic, emotional, psychological and spiritual; and having to live with cancer, which means adapting oneself in living in a world with memories of previous processes, yet trying to adapt to a new life style each day. Independent of how women and their relatives live these processes, each of them happens just after the living of the previous process, characterizing the existence of the theory that allows the health professionals to visualize these people's needs in different phases and rethink about a nursing assistance to the vigorous problem.