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Psychological Responses to Terminal Illness and Eventual Death in Koreans With Cancer

Authors
 Kyung-Ah Kang  ;  Jean R. Miller  ;  Won Hee Lee 
Citation
 RESEARCH AND THEORY FOR NURSING PRACTICE, Vol.20(1) : 29-47, 2006 
Journal Title
RESEARCH AND THEORY FOR NURSING PRACTICE
ISSN
 1541-6577 
Issue Date
2006
MeSH
Adaptation, Psychological* ; Aged ; Attitude to Death* ; Female ; Humans ; Korea ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Models, Psychological ; Neoplasms/psychology* ; Terminally Ill/psychology*
Abstract
This qualitative study describes the psychological responses of Korean participants with terminal cancer (stages III-IV) from time of diagnosis to death. Eighteen participants, ages 48 to 73, were interviewed at various phases of dying. Using analytic induction, three categories (nonacceptance, resignation, submission), characteristic patterns of responses over the course of illness and typical responses within categories were generated. Nonaccepters denied the possibility of death while struggling to live; their typical response was resistance. Resigners displayed sorrow, thoughts about their destiny, and growing acceptance of their fate. Their typical response was nonresistance. Submitters were shocked initially, searched for God's will, and prepared for death with hope. Their typical response was hopeful that God would care for them and their families. Participants' ages, physical pain, burden to family, and beliefs played important roles in the patterns of responses.
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Appears in Collections:
3. College of Nursing (간호대학) > Dept. of Nursing (간호학과) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Lee, Won Hee(이원희)
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/110559
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