The Experiences of Adolescents' Suffering from Cancer: Breaking out of the withdrawn Ego.
10.5388/aon.2013.13.4.304
- Author:
Yoon Jung KIM
1
;
Hye Jin KWON
Author Information
1. Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea. kwonhj@cau.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Adolescent;
Neoplasms;
Life Experience
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Ego*;
Humans;
Life Change Events;
Nursing;
Outpatients
- From:Asian Oncology Nursing
2013;13(4):304-312
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
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 'Breaking out of the withdrawn ego' was the core category in this study.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This study provides a framework for the development of individualized nursing interventions for 'Breaking out of the withdrawn ego' to care for adolescents with cancer.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.
