Engelsk titel: Being relatives when alternative therapies are used in the "fight against cancer"
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Författare:
Rabben, Jannicke
;
Johannessen, Berit
Email: Jannicke.rabben@gmail.com
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 52
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 15073081
Sammanfattning
CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) is prevalent among cancer patients. Relatives
are central to support and care for the patient but experience challenges and stresses in this role.
The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge of how it is experienced to be relative of people with
terminal cancer who seeks CAM. Five qualitative semi-structured in-depth interviews of relatives and
nine biographies written by relatives were analyzed using systematic text condensation. Results
showed that relatives experienced to fight for hope in a given battle, not knowing who you can trust,
well-meant pressure from others, putting the sick in the center, a double balance between quality of
life and life extension, and mixed feelings in retrospect. The language was characterized by war
metaphors. In order to provide better support to relatives it is important that health workers have
insight into the paradoxical and ambivalent experience of hope for healing and simultaneously fear
of death.