Author:
Londoño Calle Yenly Catherine
Abstract
Objective: discover the process of adaptation to their new life conditions and state of health within a sociocultural context.
Methodology: qualitative study supported in the Founded Theory by means of in depth interviews to a sample of twenty resident women who received treatment for breast cancer in the city of Medellín, Colombia from 2005 to 2007.
Results: the reach of the analysis allowed establishing a conceptual order, showing a process of adaptation in four stages, denominated thus: 1. Discovering the disease, 2. Accepting the disease, 3. Overcoming disease, and 4. Adapting to a new body and a new life.
Conclusions: the adaptation of the breast cancer women with breast cancer is a complex process because they must face continuously the multiple imbalances that affect their emotional, physical, mental and social dimensions
Subject
General Nursing,Community and Home Care,Maternity and Midwifery,Family Practice,Health (social science),Geriatrics and Gerontology,Nursing (miscellaneous)
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