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18489699

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-5-20
pubmed:abstractText
The preunderstanding for this study is that progression of a person's suffering can be seen as movement from unbearable to the bearable. This study aims to examine the development of understanding of life in people with cancer and burnout syndrome in relation to nursing care. Our method entailed clinical application research in the design and collection of data, which consisted of qualitative interviews with 16 former patients in conventional and anthroposophic health care; nine with cancer diagnoses and seven with burnout syndrome. The main theme of our findings is 'a pilgrimage on the road to understanding of life'. The pilgrimage is the person's own inner decision to reach new insights and meaning. When suffering from cancer, the struggle is related to threat of death, while persons with burnout syndrome struggle with a threatening nothingness. Walking alone on the pilgrimage without being met in an understanding of life creates increased suffering, while having a companion on the pilgrimage was seen as adding dignity to the suffering human being. The implications for nursing care are that even patients with burnout syndrome need a caring hermeneutic dialogue, where time and space is shared with a caregiver during the pilgrimage.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
N
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1471-6712
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
275-83
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
A pilgrimage on the road to understanding of life in experiences of cancer and burnout syndrome.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden. arnre@isv.liu.se
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't