Engelsk titel: Waiting for carotid stenosis surgery - patients' perspectives
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Författare:
Rådström E
;
Jonsen E
Email: eva.radstrom@telia.com
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 29
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 06043747
Sammanfattning
Rapid medical progress during
the last decade has resulted in
more people than ever before
waiting for diagnostic procedures
and operations. The aim of this
study was to identify and elucidate
patients` experiences of waiting
to undergo an operation for
carotid stenosis. Nine patients
who were all waiting for the operation
were interviewed. The
interviews were analysed with
qualitative content analysis. The
results from the analysis were
presented as two themes. One
theme was to wait and feel secure
ground and the other was to wait
and feel insecure ground. All of
the patients were hovering in a
higher or lesser degree between
these two extremes. Waiting was
both being seen as normal and
controllable and as an ordeal and
a trial. The result of this study
shows that the patients are using
different kinds of coping-strategies
to manage the waiting-time
before the operation. These strategies
were both of an active and
problem-solving nature as well as
of an emotional nature. When
caring for these patients it is
important to strengthen the patients
who experienced the waiting-
time as insecure when feelings
of stress, uneasiness and
anxiety were prominent. It is
important that nurses find out
how the patient has experienced
the waiting-time and when it is
considered necessary give the
patient extra-time to express his
feelings and thoughts.