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Family response to difficult hospitalizations: the phenomenon of `working through'
Author(s) -
BUTTERY JOANNE,
EADES MARGARET,
FRISCH SARA,
GIGUÈRE MONIQUE,
MOUNTJOY ANITA
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.1999.00257.x
Subject(s) - grounded theory , storytelling , phenomenon , qualitative research , unit (ring theory) , rhetorical question , psychology , process (computing) , nursing , social psychology , medicine , developmental psychology , narrative , sociology , epistemology , computer science , social science , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics education , operating system
• This paper describes the process and outcomes of a project to learn about qualitative research methods. • A small study of family participation in decision‐making was conducted with 7 family members who were interviewed after an inter‐unit patient transfer. • The data analysis used strategies derived from grounded theory, family life‐cycle framework and storytelling. • The interviews indicated respondents' concerns about the patient, their efforts to balance their lives during a time of disarray and their sorting through crises in their lives (`working through'). • `Working through' discourse has identifiable features, including: linking the past, present and future; refrains; rhetorical questions; and self‐talk. • Clinicians should encourage the `working through' process by family during the hospitalization of a family member.