Cancer survivorship: existential suffering
Purpose This study aimed to explore and describe existential experiences after cancer treatment. Method An exploratory phenomenological hermeneutical design was used following in-depth interviews with 21 people. Results The study revealed experiences of multifaceted suffering in the form of limitati...
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| description | Purpose This study aimed to explore and describe existential experiences after cancer treatment. Method An exploratory phenomenological hermeneutical design was used following in-depth interviews with 21 people. Results The study revealed experiences of multifaceted suffering in the form of limitations in everyday life, inner struggles, and bearing the burden alone. Conclusions Existential suffering after cancer treatment was revealed as like being in a process of transition, in an intermediate state, as moving between suffering and enduring, and alternating between alienworld and homeworld. A new and broader professional perspective is needed to establish rehabilitation services based on multifaceted experiences of suffering. This means a shift in focus from biomedical symptoms towards understanding of existential meaning for the person. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a1590c4e37f74402982aa28faac9b7c72022-12-21T19:44:13ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being1748-26231748-26312021-01-0116110.1080/17482631.2021.20018972001897Cancer survivorship: existential sufferingVenke Ueland0Elin Dysvik1Jessica Hemberg2Bodil Furnes3University of StavangerUniversity of StavangerÅbo Akademi UniversityUniversity of StavangerPurpose This study aimed to explore and describe existential experiences after cancer treatment. Method An exploratory phenomenological hermeneutical design was used following in-depth interviews with 21 people. Results The study revealed experiences of multifaceted suffering in the form of limitations in everyday life, inner struggles, and bearing the burden alone. Conclusions Existential suffering after cancer treatment was revealed as like being in a process of transition, in an intermediate state, as moving between suffering and enduring, and alternating between alienworld and homeworld. A new and broader professional perspective is needed to establish rehabilitation services based on multifaceted experiences of suffering. This means a shift in focus from biomedical symptoms towards understanding of existential meaning for the person.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2021.2001897cancer survivorexistential experiencephenomenological hermeneuticsintermediate stateenduringtransitionslived experiencelifeworldsuffering |
| spellingShingle | Venke Ueland Elin Dysvik Jessica Hemberg Bodil Furnes Cancer survivorship: existential suffering International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being cancer survivor existential experience phenomenological hermeneutics intermediate state enduring transitions lived experience lifeworld suffering |
| title | Cancer survivorship: existential suffering |
| title_full | Cancer survivorship: existential suffering |
| title_fullStr | Cancer survivorship: existential suffering |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cancer survivorship: existential suffering |
| title_short | Cancer survivorship: existential suffering |
| title_sort | cancer survivorship existential suffering |
| topic | cancer survivor existential experience phenomenological hermeneutics intermediate state enduring transitions lived experience lifeworld suffering |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2021.2001897 |
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