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| Author(s): |
Jorge Juarez Vieira Teixeira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP/CIR) |
| Defense date: | 2003-01-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Fernando Lefevre;
Alice Moreira Derntl;
Paulo Antonio de Carvalho Fortes;
Francisco Lotufo Neto;
Leocir Pessini
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| Advisor: | Fernando Lefevre |
| Abstract | |
Objective. Studies about religious and spiritual involvement in the lives of elderly patients with chronic illnesses and the concept that health professionals have to face this process are scarce in Brazil. Research was done with the objective of identifYing the meaning o f medicai intervention and religious faith in the life o f the elderly patient with cancer, as well as identifYing their meaning for health professionals in the treatment and life of the patient. Methods. This study was descriptive and used the qualitative method. The sample was intentional, composed of 20 physicians, 20 elderly patients with cancer, 1 O nurses, I O psychologists and 5 chaplains. The semistructured interview technique was used in the data collection and developed from January 9th 2001 to March 28th 2001 at \"Francisco Morato de Oliveira\" State Workers\' Hospital - IAMSPE and at Pérola Byington Hospitai!Women\'s Health Center, São Paulo. The thematic analysis Discourse of the Collective Subject was used to treat the data. Three methodological figures were used: I) the Central Idea (CI), 2) Key Expressions (KE) and 3) the Discourse ofthe Collective Subject (DCS). Results. The patients presented 20 CI and 20 DCS, the physicians, nurses and chaplains I O CI and I O DCS, the psychologists 8 CI and 8 DCS. The results are discursive, demanding an extensive volume of material. Final considerations. The discourses of the health professionals presented various tendencies regarding the importance and strengthening o f faith while facing the challenges o f life. As regards the discourses ofthe elderly patients with cancer, situations ofcomfort, optirnism and security in the face of medicai intervention predominated. Faith or religious faith in the Iives o f the elderly was highly valued instrument and endowed with great ability to provide comfort and hope as essential means to face threatening illnesses. (AU) | |