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| Author(s): |
Miriam Lopes
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2015-10-02 |
| Examining board members: |
Marcia Maria Fontao Zago;
Anna Cláudia Yokoyama dos Anjos;
Eliza Maria Rezende Dázio;
Sueli Aparecida Frari Galera;
Lucila Castanheira Nascimento
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| Advisor: | Marcia Maria Fontao Zago |
| Abstract | |
The diagnosis of cancer and the need to undergo several treatments cause impact and change in the people\'s life. The personal reaction in coping with the itinerary of the disease suffers influence of the sociocultural context affecting the way of dealing with existential feelings from experience. These feelings can be related through different terms, among them, depression. The aim of study was to interpret the meanings of the depression attributed by patients with bladder cancer under therapeutic follow-up, based on their narratives. It was used the qualitative methodological approach, supported by theoretical-methodological referential of medical anthropology and narrative method. After ethical approval for the research and agreement of the heads of institutions, as coparticipants, 12 individuals were invited to participate of the study, they all with bladder cancer, without depression diagnosis, under therapeutic follow-up at the Oncological Urology Clinic that provide health service of high complexity in the countryside of São Paulo state . The data collection occurred from January 2014 to February 2015, through recorded semi-structured interviews, direct observations and it were registered in the immersion diary. These activities were held at the patients´ residences and in the health service. It was obtained a representative sample of the group, non-intentional, homogeneous regard to sex, being the most part of the patients over 60 years old, married, with more seven years of schooling and retired. For treatment, they all were submitted to TUR, with BCG association for the greater part and three of them by cystectomy. The analysis of narratives data was supported on the assumptions of thematic analysis by inductive process. The categories were identified and used to elaborate the units of senses of the experienced process by bladder cancer and depression as well as built the explanatory models of the patients. These units of senses served as guide for construction of two narratives syntheses and their meanings: \"The paradox of life with bladder cancer\" and \"The depression as emotion with bladder cancer under therapeutic follow-up\". The first synthesis addresses the difficulties with disease process and treatment as rupture of life, an uncertain future on the possibility of recurrence of the disease, the need of continuous treatment to control the disease and compensatory logic of the emotional control relating to contradictories considerations of the current life. Thus, the meaning of this narrative synthesis is paradox. The second synthesis approaches the incorporation of the depression term to common sense, which exposes the sociocultural dimension of the condition of being cancer survivor under therapeutic follow-up; its meaning reveals depression in cancer as social practice and subjectivity expression through emotion of sadness. This research allowed us to interpret the meanings of depression attributed by patients with bladder cancer according to their experiences. As final consideration, we emphasize the importance of the nurses to give attention to the mental health of the patients with cancer, by listening to their subjectivities to promote appropriate interventions, aiming care completeness (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/01876-4 - The meanings of depression among cancer patients undergoing treatment |
| Grantee: | Miriam Lopes |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |