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12191036

Source:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/id/12191036

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-8-22
pubmed:abstractText
This is an inquiry into how significant others experience being close to a woman suffering from breast cancer. In order to find this out, theme interviews were arranged with 17 women and 16 significant others from four different caring cultures in Sweden and Finland. A phenomenological case study methodology was adopted and in the analysis of the data a scientific teamwork model was employed, based on ideas developed at the Vancouver School of Doing Phenomenology. The findings show that the significant others experience deep often unrelieved suffering. They consider themselves prisoners of a situation of uncertainty and powerlessness when standing by the woman. They are torn between their own suffering and their desire to alleviate the woman's suffering. A vicious circle of mutual protection intensifies the suffering of the significant other, while actively sharing the suffering brings relief. The gravity of the situation creates an ethical urge in the significant other to assume responsibility for life in common with the woman.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
N
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0283-9318
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
248-55
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Significant others' experience of suffering when living with women with breast cancer.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of caring Science, Abo Akademi University, Finland. lisbet.lindholm@abo.fi
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't