Experiences of Body Image Changes in Chinese Patients Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Descriptive Qualitative Study
Purpose: Body image changes are common among patients living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) because of the illness and related treatments. Currently, there is little known about how those patients experience and perceive their altered body image in the literature. The aim of this study was to...
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| description | Purpose: Body image changes are common among patients living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) because of the illness and related treatments. Currently, there is little known about how those patients experience and perceive their altered body image in the literature. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of body image changes in patients with IBD in China and to describe how those changes influence patients’ perception of body and self. Methods: This study used a descriptive qualitative approach. A total of 16 participants from three tertiary hospitals in southeast China were recruited through purposive sampling combined with maximum variation strategy. Data were collected through semistructured interviews and analyzed using conventional content analysis method. Results: The following six themes were extracted: (1) “being a constrained person,” (2) “being a flawed person,” (3) “being a disliked person,” (4) “being an alienated person,” (5) “being a reconciled person,” and (6) “being a blessed person.” Conclusion: With the diagnosis of IBD and its side effects of treatments, patients’ life changed significantly and they were struggling to reinterpret their body and self. As a result, negative self-evaluations and/or positive self-evaluations towards themselves generated. Further studies are required to explore the underlying mechanism and related influencing factors about how those different images were produced. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fdb3c26928144b31a7d418a6c4ea76922022-12-22T01:20:46ZengElsevierAsian Nursing Research1976-13172020-10-01144196205Experiences of Body Image Changes in Chinese Patients Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Descriptive Qualitative StudyJiayin Ruan0Linye Wu1Yunxian Zhou2School of Nursing, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Zhejiang, China; Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zhejiang, ChinaSchool of Nursing, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Zhejiang, China; Zhejiang Hospital, Zhejiang, ChinaSchool of Nursing, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Zhejiang, China; Corresponding author. School of Nursing, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 548 Binwen Road, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310053, China.Purpose: Body image changes are common among patients living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) because of the illness and related treatments. Currently, there is little known about how those patients experience and perceive their altered body image in the literature. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of body image changes in patients with IBD in China and to describe how those changes influence patients’ perception of body and self. Methods: This study used a descriptive qualitative approach. A total of 16 participants from three tertiary hospitals in southeast China were recruited through purposive sampling combined with maximum variation strategy. Data were collected through semistructured interviews and analyzed using conventional content analysis method. Results: The following six themes were extracted: (1) “being a constrained person,” (2) “being a flawed person,” (3) “being a disliked person,” (4) “being an alienated person,” (5) “being a reconciled person,” and (6) “being a blessed person.” Conclusion: With the diagnosis of IBD and its side effects of treatments, patients’ life changed significantly and they were struggling to reinterpret their body and self. As a result, negative self-evaluations and/or positive self-evaluations towards themselves generated. Further studies are required to explore the underlying mechanism and related influencing factors about how those different images were produced.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1976131720300517body imageCrohn diseaseinflammatory bowel diseasesqualitative researchulcerative colitis |
| spellingShingle | Jiayin Ruan Linye Wu Yunxian Zhou Experiences of Body Image Changes in Chinese Patients Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Descriptive Qualitative Study Asian Nursing Research body image Crohn disease inflammatory bowel diseases qualitative research ulcerative colitis |
| title | Experiences of Body Image Changes in Chinese Patients Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Descriptive Qualitative Study |
| title_full | Experiences of Body Image Changes in Chinese Patients Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Descriptive Qualitative Study |
| title_fullStr | Experiences of Body Image Changes in Chinese Patients Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Descriptive Qualitative Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Experiences of Body Image Changes in Chinese Patients Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Descriptive Qualitative Study |
| title_short | Experiences of Body Image Changes in Chinese Patients Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Descriptive Qualitative Study |
| title_sort | experiences of body image changes in chinese patients living with inflammatory bowel disease a descriptive qualitative study |
| topic | body image Crohn disease inflammatory bowel diseases qualitative research ulcerative colitis |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1976131720300517 |
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