Bröstcancerpatienters upplevelser av komplementär vård vid en antroposofisk klinik - en
fallstudie
Engelsk titel: Experiences of breast cancer patients with complementary care in an anthroposophical clinic - a
case report
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Författare:
Arman M
;
Rehnfeldt A
;
Hamrin E
Email: maria.arman@btn.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 30
Dokumenttyp:
Fallbeskrivning
UI-nummer: 02073392
Sammanfattning
In focusing on their own life perspective,
the aim of this study was
to shed light on the experiences
breast cancer patients confer to a
stay in complementary care at an
anthroposophic clinic. From a
larger, matched multidisciplinary
study on life situation among
women with breast cancer in different
systems of care, three
women with breast cancer in different
stages were chosen. The
women had a stay for 11-13 days
in an anthroposophic hospital in
Sweden. Two follow-up interviews
with each participant, three and
six months after the stay at the
clinic was analysed with interpretive
phenomenological case study
method. The theoretical framework
of the study was Katie
Erikssons’ theory of caring. In the
findings, the three women’s experiences
are described separately.
Their narratives have many differences
and some similarities. It
seems like the individual oriented,
anthroposophic care had
been able to offer each of the
women something that they in
their actual life situation were in
need of. One woman experienced
the treatment with anthroposophic
medicine and the confirming,
holistic paradigm as significant.
Another woman experienced that,
the healing and loving care, had
effected a changed and opened
view on life. The third woman
emphasised that, the experiences
of harmony, wholeness, and
caring relations had a meaning
for her, long time afterwards. Critical
aspects of the care were a
lack of continuity and an ambivalent
feeling about the consequences
of the holistic paradigm.