Open AccessIdentifying Important Challenges of Coping with Female Breast Cancer among Iranian Spouses: A Qualitative Study
Author(s) -
Marzieh Jahani Sayad Noveiri,
Masoud Khodaveisi,
Farshid Shamsaei,
Zohreh Vanaki,
Leili Tapak
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
iranian journal of psychiatry.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2008-2215
pISSN - 1735-4587
DOI - 10.18502/ijps.v17i4.10686
Subject(s) - breast cancer , coping (psychology) , qualitative research , nonprobability sampling , psychology , confusion , disease , medicine , clinical psychology , cancer , pathology , population , sociology , social science , environmental health , psychoanalysis
Objective: Breast cancer is a multidimensional crisis for women and their spouses that affects every aspect of their life. Coping with this disease requires investigating and resolving the challenges faced by all those affected by it. The present study was conducted to clarify these challenges on the basis of lived experiences of the spouses of women with breast cancer. Method : The present qualitative research performed an interpretive phenomenological analysis in Iran.Purposive sampling was employed to select twenty spouses of women with breast cancer. The data collected through unstructured face-to-face interviews were analyzed using van Manen's method. To ensure the rigor of the study, Lincoln and Guba's criteria were evaluated in the qualitative process. Results: Lived experiences of the spouses of the women with breast cancer in coping with challenges included the four themes of emotional confusion, shouldering the burden of care, psychophysical suffering caused by the disease and life without cohesion. Conclusion: Spouses of the women with breast cancer in the Iranian community faced several challenges and issues. The socioeconomic support provided by supporting organizations and medical personnel appear to help moderate these challenges and improve coping in this group.