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- Andersson, B, et al.
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Being a hospice volunteer
- 2005
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In: Palliative Medicine. - 0269-2163 .- 1477-030X. ; 19, s. 602-609
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Andersson, Birgit, et al.
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Being a hospice volunteer
- 2005
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In: Palliative Medicine. - : SAGE Publications. - 0269-2163 .- 1477-030X. ; 19, s. 602-609
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of this study was to obtain an understanding of what it means to be a hospice volunteer in a country without a tradition of hospice or palliative volunteer care services. Ten volunteers from three different hospices in Sweden were interviewed. Their narratives were interpreted with a phenomenological hermeneutic method. Three themes were disclosed: motives for becoming involved in hospices, encountering the hospice and encountering the patient. The interpretations disclose a need for the volunteer to be affirmed as a caring person and received in fellowship at the hospice. Positive encounters with a hospice are closely related to personal growth. Volunteers feel rejected if their need for meaning and for belonging to the hospice is not satisfied. This shows that hospices need to set goals in terms of volunteer support, particularly regarding existential issues following the encounter with the hospice and the patient. PMID: 16450877 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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- Berndtsson, Inger, 1957, et al.
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Issues about thinking phenomenologically while doing phenomenology
- 2007
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In: Journal of Phenomenological Psychology. - : Brill Academic Publishers. - 0047-2662 .- 1569-1624. ; 38:2, s. 256-277
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This methodological article explores issues related to having the ontological ground for phenomenological empirical research present throughout the research process. We discuss how ontology needs to be taken into consideration regarding the phenomena to be studied and how ontological aspects of phenomena need to be highlighted during various data collection and analysis procedures. Here, we discuss how philosophical works can be used in the context of specific research projects. In illustrating our statements, we present four empirical examples connected to the themes of life changes and learning processes with the purpose of exemplifying and discussing how general lifeworld ontology can be integrated as an active resource in empirical phenomenological research.
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- Elgán, Carina, et al.
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Vuxet vardagsliv
- 2009
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In: Omvårdnadens grunder. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. ; , s. 147-174
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- Friberg, Febe, 1950, et al.
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Creating space for learning at oncology outpatient units.
- 2008
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In: The Fourth Pan-Pacific Nuring Conference. The Sixth Hong-Kong Nursing Symposium on Cancer Care. Managing Chronic Illness: Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing Practice and research, 13-15 November 2008. Hong Kong.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)
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- Friberg, Febe, et al.
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Searching for knowledge and understanding while living with impending death : a phenomenological case study
- 2007
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In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being. - : Co-Action Publishing. - 1748-2623 .- 1748-2631. ; 2:4, s. 217-226
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article, expression of the quest for knowledge and understanding while living with the threat of fatal cancer is explored. By means of a case study, recurrent narrative interviews and participant observations were performed with one 71-year-old man and the oncology nurse taking care of him. The data were analysed phenomenologically and the results disclose three paths during the illness trajectory at the end-of-life; the stable path, the turning point and the waiting. Existential uncertainty is managed in the stable path, while confronting existential uncertainty is characterized by the turning point, and there is a shift towards living existential certainty during the waiting. The significance of openness towards the intertwinement of the experiential and existential dimensions of living in end-of-life care is emphasized. Research into patients' multidimensional learning at the end of life is needed in order to expand knowledge of how the patient makes sense of their situation particularly in relation to the information they receive from palliative care professionals
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- Frid, Ingvar, 1945, et al.
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Brain death: close relatives' use of imagery as a descriptor of experience.
- 2007
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In: Journal of advanced nursing. - : Wiley. - 0309-2402 .- 1365-2648. ; 58:1, s. 63-71
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- AIM: This paper is a report of a study to explore the use of imagery to describe the experience of confronting brain death in a close relative. BACKGROUND: The brain death of a loved one has been described as an extremely difficult experience for close relatives, evoking feelings of anger, emotional pain, disbelief, guilt and suffering. It can also be difficult for relatives to distinguish brain death from the state of coma and thus difficult to apprehend information about the diagnosis. METHODS: Narrative theory and a hermeneutic phenomenological method guided the interpretation of 17 narratives from close relatives of brain dead patients. All narratives were scrutinized for experiences of brain death. Data were primarily collected in 1999. The primary analysis related to close relatives' experience of brain death in a loved one. A secondary analysis of the imagery they used to describe their experience was carried out in 2003. FINDINGS: Six categories of imagery used to describe the experience of confronting a diagnosis of brain death in a loved one emerged: chaotic unreality; inner collapse; sense of forlornness; clinging to the hope of survival; reconciliation with the reality of death; receiving care which gives comfort. Participants also identified two pairs of dimensions to describe their feelings about the relationship between their brain dead relative's body and personhood: presence-absence and divisibility-indivisibility. Being confronted with brain death meant entering into the anteroom of death, facing a loved one who is 'living-dead', and experiencing a chaotic drama of suffering. CONCLUSION: It is very important for members of the intensive care unit team to recognize, face and respond to these relatives' chaotic experiences, which cause them to need affirmation, comfort and caring. Relatives' use of imagery could be the starting point for a caring conversation about their experiences, either in conversations at the time of the death or when relatives are contacted in a later follow-up.
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