The day-to-day experience of patients with cancer consolidates itself as a threat to their stability and to their extended family. When patients receive home care, they thrive on a series of feelings that emerge from the patient-caregiver relationship within daily cares. It is thus highly important to understand the patients´ feelings during the home care process since, due to cancer, the transformation in thei...
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 objective of this study was to understand how people with cancer perceive the presence or absence of relatives while undergoing treatment away from home. A Heideggerian phenomenological research was conducted with 11 people undergoing antineoplastic treatment and lodged in a support house. Data were collected between June and September 2013, by means of in-depth interviews. The following ontological themes ...
This study aimed at unveiling the feeling of hope in people who experience cancer in their existence. Qualitative study based on Heidegger’s phenomenology, performed with eight cancer patients assisted in a philanthropic organization, between December 2013 and February 2014, in a northwestern city in Paraná, Brazil, using the following guiding question: “How do you perceive the feeling of hope at this time in y...
Objetivou-se desvelar o sentimento de esperança para as pessoas que vivenciam o câncer em sua existência. Pesquisa qualitativa, fenomenológica heideggeriana, realizada com oito pacientes atendidos em instituição filantrópica, entre dezembro de 2013 a fevereiro de 2014, em uma cidade localizada no noroeste do Paraná, Brasil, inquiridos por meio da questão norteadora: “Como você percebe o sentimento de esperança ...
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...
Objetivou-se caracterizar os óbitos por neoplasias malignas de crianças e adolescentes residentes no Estado do Paraná entre os anos de 2001 e 2010. Estudo quantitativo, descritivo, transversal, baseado em dados secundários dos Sistemas de Informação de Mortalidade e Morbidade Hospitalar do Departamento de Informática do Sistema Único de Saúde, realizado de julho a dezembro de 2012. Foram analisadas as variáveis...