FAMILY EXPERIENCE FACING ILLNESS AND TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA

Authors

  • Claudete Ferreira de Souza Monteiro
  • Lorena Uchoa Portela Veloso
  • Patricya Castelo Branco de Sousa
  • Sheila Coelho Ramalho Vasconcelos Morais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v13i4.13104

Keywords:

Família, Enfermagem, Leucemia linfóide=pt, Family, Nursing, Leukemia lymphoid=en, Familia, Enfermería, Leucemia linfoide=es

Abstract

This study approaches family members’ experience of children/adolescents in the presence of illness and

treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the light of Heidegger’s phenomenological analysis. Data were collected by

means of an interview with 11 families in Terezina, Piauí/Brazil, from March to April of 2007. The results were organized into

units of meaning which point out the family being-of-child-with-cancer, being-with-child-with-cancer and family beingwith-

future outlook. It is possible to conclude that in the presence of illness and treatment of child/adolescent with acute

lymphoblastic leukemia, the family goes into the child/adolescent’s world and makes it their own world, incorporating their

children’s suffering and struggles and, at times, setting aside their own being. However, it is in the same situation that

families, being-with the children and the others that surround them, develop possibilities of being and living, so as to find

the wholeness of their being-there.

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Published

2008-12-17

How to Cite

Monteiro, C. F. de S., Veloso, L. U. P., Sousa, P. C. B. de, & Morais, S. C. R. V. (2008). FAMILY EXPERIENCE FACING ILLNESS AND TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA. Cogitare Enfermagem, 13(4). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v13i4.13104

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 4 (2008)

Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

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