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護理健管類 The Self-Adjusting Process of a Female Mid-Aged Care Giver – Her Spouse with Advanced Cancer
2016-09-01 ／ 文：Paul Tseng
Aim. The aim was to explore the stress and adjusting process of the female mid-aged care giver whose husband is with advanced cancer.
Background. Facing a great shock to her family is the mid-aged female whose husband is diagnosed as a patient of advanced cancer and is being under medical treatment. Playing a vital role in a normal family operation, the mid-aged female must bear a lot of pressure: financial burden, children rearing, taking care of her couple, etc. However, unfortunately enough, there are few documents on how to take care of the care-giver’s possibly emerging problems as well as the ways of sorting out them.
Design. A qualitative study was adopted to interview 11 informants. .
Method. In addition to employing a phenomenological methodology, this study collects data by means of face-to-face, semi-structural, and in-depth interviews. And after the interviews, the recorded materials are literally transcribed into a written-form report, then repeatedly read in order to analyze and figure out the themes by three qualitative researchers, who are well-trained, having more then ten years of taking care of patients with cancers, even ever offering the classes of life-and-death studies.
Results. The pressure of such kind of female mid-aged care-giver is intimately associated with the following factors—her couple’s mood, financial burden, care giving, lack of an outlet for her emotional pressure, the uncertainty of the situation, the change of the family life, fear of her spouse’s torments by the advanced cancer, and what not. Under such circumstances, the female care-giver is advised to change her own attitudes and way of thinking, develop effective skills of care giving, and to adjust herself to pressures with the help of family members and society.
Relevance to clinical practice. Seeing the whole pictures of the pressure faced by such kind of female care givers is beneficial for the reflection and thinking of nursing members in offering them nursing advice and in advancing the nursing quality.
Key words: female care giver, advanced cancer,
