The objective of the present study was to understand the suffering emanating from the terminality process and its consequences in the lives of those who experience it. This is a phenomenological study, based on Heideggerian thought, carried out with 11 patients with advanced cancer. The data were obtained through open interviews, conducted from November 2015 to March 2016. Two themes emerged from the results: “...
Objetivo: Desvelar o significado do cuidado de si frente à realidade de ser cuidadora do companheiro com câncer.Método: Pesquisa fenomenológica heideggeriana, realizada com dez mulheres cuidadoras dos companheiros com câncer, em um município da região noroeste do Paraná, entre dezembro de 2013 a fevereiro de 2014.Resultados: Da análise dos discursos, emergiram as temáticas ontológicas: esquecendo-se de ser mulh...
Experiences of females with uterine cancer have been analyzed prior to brachytherapy treatment. The qualitative research has been foregrounded on Martin Heidegger’s existential phenomenology which favors the understanding of instances experienced by the patients. Females who had already initiated some type of treatment for uterine cancer were investigated, although only those undertaken radiotherapy in a specif...
The Health Ministry defines Diabetes mellitus as a multiple etiology syndrome caused by lack of insulin and insulin incapability to achieve result. This pathology is acquiring increasingly greater proportions among the population. Current analysis investigates the feelings presented by informal care-takers that attend less than 12 years old children with Type I Diabetes mellitus. A qualitative study, based on t...
The objective of the study was to understand how users with cancer perceive the performance of professionals of the Family Health Strategy teams (the family health program of the Brazilian Ministry of Health). A descriptive study of a qualitative nature was conducted in a city in the northwest of the state of Paraná. The data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews with nine users with cancer regi...
This study aimed to learn the experiences of children who witness their parents' illness due to cancer. This is a descriptive, qualitative study, with six children between 10 and 12 years of age, children of cancer patients assisted by a support institution. The data were collected from July to August 2015, based on the guiding question: "How do you feel about your father/mother's illness?" From the analysis...
This study is aimed at characterizing the deaths caused by malignant neoplasias in children and adolescents living in the state of Paraná, Brazil between 2001 and 2010. It is a quantitative, descriptive, transversal study, based on secondary data, obtained through the data processing department of the Sistema Único de Saúde from July to December, 2012. The following variables were analyzed: gender, age, race an...
The purpose of the study was to know the definitions nursing students have concerning the death-dying process. A descriptive-qualitative study developed in 2010, with 65 students of the first and last year of Nursing in a public university. Data was collected through semi-structured interview and submitted to content analysis. Data showed that the students possess diverse opinions concerning this process, per t...
This study aimed to understand the concepts of family members of patients with cancer, who were inserted and guided by the actions of an extension project aimed at patients with cancer and their families, about the home care given to them, during the treatment phase and progression of the disease. This is an evaluative qualitative research conducted with six family members from June to October, 2013, through se...
This is a qualitative study grounded in Heidegger's existential phenomenology, which aimed to understand the meaning of infant death to the bereaved parents. We interviewed six parents who have experienced the death of an infant in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Three categories emerged: the infant's death: shattered dreams, experiencing the infant's death; and overcoming mourning. Based on the study we appr...