Welcome to the second journal club
- Venue: Jack Mann 102 DW1 at Dovedale Avenue Campus (College of Education, Health, and Human Development, University of Canterbury)
- Time: 10-11 AM, on 13th March, Tuesday
- Topic: A preprint article by Kate Reid, titled, “‘How are you feeling?’: a qualitative study examining how cancer survivors frame the quality of their lived experiences”.
- Speaker/Agenda: Kate Reid will discuss this article, followed by questions and answers on this research, and plans for sending a set of responses to Kate for her final preparation.
Synopsis:
Reid et al argue that nurses must develop therapeutic relationships with cancer patients (and cancer survivors) for improving their quality of life. They conducted a series of interviews with cancer survivors who were in the stage of remission (age group between 45-70, and they were in remission at various stages of different cancers: head and neck, breast, bowel, and prostrate cancers). They inteterviewed 14 participants at home and used a hermeneutic approach to analyse the transcripts of the interviews. They found two emergent themes: ‘connectedness’ and ‘disconnectedness’ that were linked with ‘living well’ and ‘suffering’.
You can read the full text of the paper here:
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