Taking care to keep familys world supported: agricultural familys experience face to cancer / Cuidando para manter o mundo da família amparado: a experiência da família rural frente ao câncer

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The present study had as objective to understand cancer fears present in families experience; to realize the meanings attributed by families to cancer fears; to understand how that meanings influence in family dynamics, and to elaborate a representative theoretical model of family dynamics face to cancer fears. It is about a qualitative study guided by Symbolic Interacionism as theoretical referential, and Grounded Theory as methodological referential. Data had been collected by means of interview with six rural families who were living family cancer experience. Comparative data analysis allowed the elaboration of a theoretical model to explain agricultural familys experience, defined by TAKING CARE TO KEEP FAMILYS WORLD SUPPORTED central category, which represents familys actions and symbolic strategies aiming at conciliating the care of sick person as well as the care of familiar life, and, therefore, to preserve elements, which connected, constitute rural familys world. Theoretical model evidences the persistent movement of family care throughout the experience to preserve symbolic elements that constitute familys world support: family unit, land, work, and care

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enfermagem da família rural family câncer grounded theory family nursing dinâmica familiar family dynamic qualitative research cancer família rural pesquisa qualitativa teoria fundamentada nos dados

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