Abstract:
CONTEXT:Being diagnosed with incurable cancer can be a life-changing experience, evoking different spiritual questions and needs. Confronting a serious life-threatening event occurs not only often unexpected but also can disrupt a person's self-image and ideals of their personhood. This confrontation makes it difficult for people to integrate it into their personal life story-otherwise referred to as an experience of contingency. OBJECTIVES:Different modes of relating to the contingent life event of having cancer have been studied in a Dutch patient population. Here we present an interview study in an U.S. population with advanced cancer patients. METHODS:We included eight American patients with advanced cancer from the George Washington University Cancer Center. All patients were interviewed twice discussing their life events and life goals using a semistructured interview model. All interviews were transcribed and analyzed focusing on how patients described the way they related to the experience of having advanced cancer. The constant comparative method with a directed content analysis approach was used to code the themes in the interviews. RESULTS:The analyses show that the four modes of relating to contingency that we found in the Dutch study population can also be found in an American advanced cancer patient population. Differences were found in the extended way American patients described the fourth mode of "receiving." CONCLUSION:This study ensures a broader and deeper understanding of relating to the experience of contingency in having incurable cancer, which is crucial in developing accurate spiritual care in the palliative phase of patients.
journal_name
J Pain Symptom Managejournal_title
Journal of pain and symptom managementauthors
Kruizinga R,Jafari N,Scherer-Rath M,Schilderman H,Bires J,Puchalski C,van Laarhoven Hdoi
10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.11.007subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-03-01 00:00:00pages
913-921issue
3eissn
0885-3924issn
1873-6513pii
S0885-3924(17)30638-3journal_volume
55pub_type
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