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| Author(s): |
Anna Helena Junqueira Franco
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2011-06-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Marislei Sanches Panobianco;
Marli Villela Mamede;
Manoel Antonio dos Santos
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| Advisor: | Marislei Sanches Panobianco |
| Abstract | |
Exploratory, descriptive, qualitative approach, which aimed to examine the influence of a full mastectomy rehabilitation group in women who lives attend it and identify what kinds of changes in their lives. Participants included 13 women aged between 49 and 82 years who attended the rehabilitation group for at least three months. Data were obtained through interviews with open questions. We sought to identify thematic units through content analysis, the following categories: 1. finding a new reality, 2. finding a way to face the new reality; 3. changing behavior and way of thinking.The results showed that after being sent to rehabilitation services, women began to understand that there was a way to deal with a little less suffering, the harsh reality of having breast cancer, a stigmatizing disease, they generated questions and fears about the present and the future. Attendance at the rehabilitation service meant that they were discovered as members of the group and accepted by both other women and professionals, experienced in the last a genuine concern to meet all their physical, emotional and psychosocial factors. Shared experiences, understood the importance of sharing their problems with the group, could ask for and offer help. They found a group of \"equal\" and felt free to share experiences, new friendships and even a \"new family\". They managed to re-socialize. Acknowledged to be stronger to cope with cancer, they felt they could improve and that could and should participate in them rehabilitation, getting to change behaviors and ways of thinking about disease and its consequences, about people and about themselves. Acknowledged the service of rehabilitation, the group of women and professionals, as largely responsible for the positive changes occurring in their lives got better even with the issues of their own finitude and expressed the appropriation of critical sense, when they proposed , albeit discreetly, some suggestions for improvements on the care offered. The rehabilitation service is the place where they find the courage to follow the life safely to laugh and cry, talk, listen and be heard without reprimand. They consider it a privilege to enjoy all that service offers, including leisure activities and no financial expenditure. Being part of this group has meant to the participants in this study a godsend chance to glimpse a new life. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/03607-8 - Breast cancer women: the meaning of participate in a group of rehabilitation, in they're perspectives |
| Grantee: | Anna Helena Junqueira Franco |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |