To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: User. lived experience. meaning.
Journal articles on the topic 'User. lived experience. meaning'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 journal articles for your research on the topic 'User. lived experience. meaning.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse journal articles on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Heubner, Joanne, and Joyce Tryssenaar. "Development of an Occupational Therapy Practice Perspective in a Homeless Shelter: A Fieldwork Experience." Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy 63, no. 1 (April 1996): 24–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000841749606300104.
Full textAbstract:
This paper describes the lived experience of a student occupational therapist at a homeless shelter. This phenomenological experience was captured through journal entries, used initially as a communication tool with the supervising therapist. Retrospective content analysis of the journal revealed a dual search for meaning: by the residents, as they sought for meaning in their chaotic lives; and the student as she searched for meaning in the role of the occupational therapist. Key themes included the importance of rapport, and the residents' innate drive towards purposeful activity. The student developed activity opportunities for people identified as lower functioning, with concommitant psychiatric difficulties. The restraints of the physical setting did not discourage people with significant dysfunction from involvement. Positive changes in psychosocial functioning also were observed. This lived experience indicates the potential of occupational therapy as an ideal profession for addressing the myriad of problems associated with the shelter population.
2
Selseng, Lillian Bruland, Brit-Marie Follevåg, and Håvard Aaslund. "How People with Lived Experiences of Substance Use Understand and Experience User Involvement in Substance Use Care: A Synthesis of Qualitative Studies." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 19 (September 28, 2021): 10219. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910219.
Full textAbstract:
There is a need for more knowledge on how people with substance use problems (SUPs) understand and experience user involvement when receiving care. In this systematic review, we identify and reanalyse the existing qualitative research that explores how people with lived experiences of substance use understand user involvement, and their experiences of key practices for achieving user involvement. We systematically searched seven electronic databases. We applied Noblit and Hare’s meta-ethnography, revised by Malterud, to identify, translate, and summarise the studies. The electronic search resulted in 2065 articles. We conducted a full-text evaluation of 63 articles, of which 12 articles met the inclusion criteria. The primary studies’ synthesis reveals three different understandings of user involvement: user involvement as joint meaning production, points of view represented, and user representation in welfare services. Key practices for achieving user involvement involved seeing and respecting the service user as a unique person, the quality of the interactional process, and the scope of action for people with SUPs, as well as professionals, including issues of stigma, power, and fatalism. The metasynthesis recognises the ambiguity of the concept of user involvement concept and the importance of including the service user’s perspective when defining user involvement. The analysis of key practices emphasises the importance of relational processes and contextual aspects when developing user involvement concepts.
3
Sierra González, Ángela. "La resignificación del futuro: una reconceptualización del concepto de igualdad." Clepsydra. Revista de Estudios de Género y Teoría Feminista 25 (2023): 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.clepsydra.2023.25.02.
Full textAbstract:
"The term “resignification” leads us to a conceptualization that involves an act of granting a new meaning or, of a change of interpretive meaning, to actions, contexts, and experiences. This means that the resignification supposes to confer a value, or a meaning different from the one used to the circumstances to which it is applied. Thus, giving new meaning to experiences consists in assigning another meaning to them, and it should be added that assigning a new meaning to lived experiences is the end of a process that is carried out from another perspective. Giving new meaning, then, is fundamental for the transformation of the perception of the lived contexts themselves and their implications. The punctual and discontinuous moments of the assumed experience of the «moments of being» are transformed, to dignify them or, on the contrary, to devalue them. In this work, certain future projections are analyzed, which are considered not only as possible, but also as desirable. It is about seeing if the promised futures are such or if they continue to be a part of a present of inequalities."
4
Lowe, Sid, Astrid Kainzbauer, Slawomir Jan Magala, and Maria Daskalaki. "International business and the Balti of meaning: food for thought." Journal of Organizational Change Management 28, no. 2 (April 13, 2015): 177–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-11-2014-0209.
Full textAbstract:
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the interactive processes linking lived embodied experiences, language and cognition (body-talk-mind) and their implications for organizational change. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use an “embodied realism” approach to examine how people feel/perceive/act (embodied experiences), how they make sense of their experiences (cognition) and how they use language and communication to “talk sense” into their social reality. To exemplify the framework, the authors use a cooking metaphor. In this metaphor, language is the “sauce”, the catalyst, which blends raw, embodied, “lived” experience with consequent rationalizations (“cooking up”) of experience. To demonstrate the approach, the authors employ the study of a Chinese multinational subsidiary in Bangkok, Thailand, where participants were encouraged to build embodied models and tell their stories through them. Findings – The authors found that participants used embodied metaphors in a number of ways (positive and negative connotations) in different contexts (single or multicultural groups) for different purposes. Participants could be said to be “cooking up” realities according to the situated context. The methodology stimulated an uncovering of ineffable, tacit or sensitive issues that were problematic or potentially problematic within the organization. Originality/value – The authors bring back the importance of lived embodied experiences, language and cognition into IB research. The authors suggest that embodied metaphors capture descriptions of reality that stimulate reflexivity, uncover suppressed organizational problems and promote the contestation of received wisdoms when organizational change is pressing and urgent. The authors see the approach as offering the potential to give voice to embodied cultures throughout the world and thereby make IB research more practically relevant.
5
Abdollahpour, Sedigheh, Abbas Heydari, Hosein Ebrahimipour, Farhad Faridhosseini, and Talat Khadivzadeh. "Understanding the Meaning of Lived Experience "Maternal Near Miss": A Qualitative Study Protocol." Journal of Caring Sciences 10, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 43–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/jcs.2021.008.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract Introduction:Maternal near-miss (MNM) is defined as "a woman who almost died but survived a serious maternal complication during pregnancy, childbirth, or within 42 days of completion of pregnancy". Despite the long-term physical and psychological burden of this event on the mother’s life, the meaning of MNM is not clear. In addition, the mother’s role complicates the understanding of this phenomenon. Therefore, this study aimed to understand lived experience of Iranian "near-miss" mothers in the postpartum period. Methods:In this Heideggerian phenomenological study, we used Souza and colleagues’ theoretical framework to understand the meaning of the lived experience of near-miss mothers in-depth. The participants had experienced MNM at least one year ago by World Health Organization (WHO)approach in multicenter, academic, tertiary care hospitals in Mashhad, Iran. Taking into account reflexivity and after obtaining ethical approval, participants were purposively sampled using semi-structured interviews, and data analysis was conducted by Diekelmann and colleagues up to data saturation. Data collection and analysis has been argued by Lincoln and Guba. Discussion:Our findings resulted in updating the existing knowledge about the meaning of MNM and its implication. Given the different needs and challenges of near-miss mothers, it is necessary to design a supportive program of primary care for them. Policymakers and managers should consider the lived experience of these mothers when planning and taking decisions.
6
Qutoshi, Sadruddin Bahadur. "Phenomenology: A Philosophy and Method of Inquiry." Journal of Education and Educational Development 5, no. 1 (May 30, 2018): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.22555/joeed.v5i1.2154.
Full textAbstract:
<p> <em>Phenomenology as a philosophy and a method of inquiry is not limited to an approach to knowing, it is rather an intellectual engagement in interpretations and meaning making that is used to understand the lived world of human beings at a conscious level. Historically, Husserl’ (1913/1962) perspective of phenomenology is a science of understanding human beings at a deeper level by gazing at the phenomenon. However, Heideggerian view of interpretive-hermeneutic phenomenology gives wider meaning to the lived experiences under study. Using this approach, a researcher uses bracketing as a taken for granted assumption in describing the natural way of appearance of phenomena to gain insights into lived experiences and interpret for meaning making. The data collection and analysis takes place side by side to illumine the specific experience to identify the phenomena that is perceived by the actors in a particular situation. The outcomes of a phenomenological study broadens the mind, improves the ways of thinking to see a phenomenon, and it enables to see ahead and define researchers’ posture through intentional study of lived experiences. However, the subjectivity and personal knowledge in perceiving and interpreting it from the research participant’s point of view has been central in phenomenological studies. To achieve such an objective, phenomenology could be used extensively in social sciences.</em></p>
7
Doyle, Susanna. "Negotiating meaning – the experience of community aged care." Journal of Adult Protection 19, no. 1 (February 13, 2017): 10–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jap-09-2016-0020.
Full textAbstract:
Purpose A framework for achieving what Heidegger referred to as a “fusion of horizons” of understanding, was developed during a study into the experience of a group of older adults receiving care. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The interpretive hermeneutic phenomenological methodology provided strategies for enabling a researcher to shift his or her understanding to be closer to that of the older adult receiving care, to better understand the experience of receiving care from the perspective of a recipient. Older adults participated in research exploring their everyday lived experiences, and contributed to the researcher’s understanding of the personal impact of care. Findings The older adults in this study perceived care in essentially relational terms, and raised the importance of maintaining personal autonomy and relationships as central to maintain meaning in daily life. This framework for successfully achieving a “fusion of horizons” during research is discussed and proposed as a potential strategy for also supporting active participation by adults in their own care provision. Originality/value This strategy might be used as a way of enhancing the engagement, safety and satisfaction of older adults, thereby also assisting to protect them from potentially negative influences of power differentials impacting on their care experience.
8
Tauba, Ahmad Mumtaz, Suryani Suryani, and Imas Rafiyah. "The Lived Experiences of the Lombok Earthquake Survivors." Nurse Media Journal of Nursing 10, no. 1 (April 18, 2020): 22–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/nmjn.v10i1.24964.
Full textAbstract:
Background: The large-scale earthquake which had struck off Lombok, an island in West Nusa Tenggara, made the survivors faced poor conditions, difficulties, and lack of supplies. Besides physical losses, the survivors also experienced various psychological health disorders that significantly affected their psychological condition as well as life.Purpose: This study was aimed at exploring and gaining deeper meaning from the lived experiences of the Lombok earthquake survivors.Methods: This study used a qualitative method with a descriptive phenomenological approach to elucidate the phenomena from experiences. The participants were ten (10) survivors of the Lombok earthquake, who were determined by purposive sampling. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and analyzed using Colaizzi's method.Results: The results showed six emerging themes, including (1) problems solving skills when disaster strikes, (2) surviving from the limitations and difficulties, (3) feeling accustomed to earthquake, (4) family is a key source of strength to continue life, (5) getting closer to God by doing religious prayers and actions to have peace of mind, and (6) learning from the disasters to become a better human being.Conclusion: The lived experience of the Lombok earthquake survivors was a long journey where they survived and adapted the difficult situations, as later, they could turn the under-pressure conditions to chances for their personal development. The findings of this study provide insights for nurses to greatly contribute to solving post-disaster psychological issues by strengthening the survivors’ religious aspects, trauma healing, play therapy, and peer-support group.
9
Fisher, Hennie, and Gerrie Du Rand. "A Western Cape Food Tour: Examining Indigenous Foods in Eateries Through the Lived Experience Model." International Conference on Tourism Research 7, no. 1 (March 11, 2024): 100–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/ictr.7.1.2077.
Full textAbstract:
Drawing attention to indigenous foods is economically advantageous for local communities growing plants to sell to the food industry, to promote food tourism and establishing alternative food systems characterised by lower costs, lessened environmental impact, and local availability. There is evidence that indigenous land stewardship could reinforce indigenous food sovereignty by recovering indigenous foods that could disappear. Although South African cuisine is not globally recognised as an ethnic cuisine, interest in it is growing, as its recent 52nd ranking (out of 100) on the TasteAtlas.com global cuisine rankings for 2023/2024 shows. Increasing understanding, availability, and celebration of indigenous foods in commercial eateries is therefore critical, along with an understanding of their sociocultural contextuality. Lived experience was the predominant guiding methodological model for this research. The researchers used qualitative phenomenological reporting to present their first-hand lived experiences, along with knowledge gained through meaning making of indigenous and heritage foods. Although this model has been criticised for methodology slurring, attention to academic rigour (in line with Husserl and Heidegger’s applied philosophical viewpoints) ensured that the knowledge gained was grounded in the researchers’ own experiences. The researchers report key insights and meaning making from their eating experiences and indigenous foods found during a food tour from 17 to 22 September 2023, along a predetermined road route within the Western Cape province of South Africa. This research contributes to the unique application of lived experience within the hospitality and tourism environments, and particularly the application of IPA (Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis) to assess participants’ ways of making meaning of indigenous food offerings found in eateries in detail.
10
Pienkos, Elizabeth, Steven Silverstein, and Louis Sass. "The Phenomenology of Anomalous World Experience in Schizophrenia: A Qualitative Study." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 48, no. 2 (October 20, 2017): 188–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341328.
Full textAbstract:
AbstractThis current study is a pilot project designed to clarify changes in the lived world among people with diagnoses within the schizophrenia spectrum. The Examination of Anomalous World Experience (eawe) was used to interview ten participants with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (sz) and a comparison group of three participants with major depressive disorder (dep). Interviews were analyzed using the descriptive phenomenological method. This analysis revealed two complementary forms of experience unique toszparticipants: Destabilization, the experience that reality and the intersubjective world are less comprehensible, less stable, and generally less real; and Subjectivization, the dominance of one’s internal, subjective experiences in the perception or interpretation of the lived world. Persons with depressive disorders, by contrast, did not experience disruptions of the reality or independence of the world or any significant disruptions of appearance or meaning. These results are consistent with contemporary and classic phenomenological views on anomalous world experience in schizophrenia.
11
Naparan, Genesis B., Seminarian Clive Jarry S. Kingco, Seminarian Arnel G. Bolivar, and Seminarian Ralph Kenneth S. Salinas. "Enduring the Loneliness inside the Catholic Diocesan College Seminary." SIASAT 5, no. 4 (October 31, 2020): 93–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/siasat.v5i4.74.
Full textAbstract:
Seminarians inside the Seminary experienced many difficulties. One of them is the experience of loneliness. The present research examined the ways of enduring the loneliness inside the Seminary. The purpose of this study is to help improve the commitment in the priesthood. The researchers used a qualitative transcendental phenomenological approach in exploring the experiences of nine college seminarians. Phenomenological is an approach to qualitative research that describes the meaning of several individuals' lived experiences, which in this research talks about the seminarians' loneliness inside the Seminary. The forms of loneliness experienced by the seminarians are classified into three themes: 1) Seminary-Related Loneliness; 2) Living away from the family, and 3) Being alone. The seminarians deal with their experienced loneliness through Social Interaction, Prayer, and making the Self Busy. The results reveal that loneliness inside, although inevitable, can be prevented through prevention measures. Future researchers may conduct a further study on how to improve the seminarians' lives inside the Seminary to help the seminarians be more committed to the priesthood.
12
Jeong, Yu Jin, Sung Suk Ryoo, Hyun Jeong Shin, and Young Hee Yi. "The Lived Experiences of Patient’s Families with the Intensive Care Unit Diary." Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing 16, no. 1 (February 28, 2023): 28–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.34250/jkccn.2023.16.1.28.
Full textAbstract:
Purpose : Intensive care unit (ICU) diaries have been implemented across the international ICU community. This study aimed to comprehend the meaning and nature of the lived experience of patients’ families using the ICU diary in Korea.Methods : This qualitative study adopted van Manen’s hermeneutic phenomenology. The participants comprised eight women and two men who were the family members of patients in the ICU for more than three days. Data were collected using in-depth interviews and observation from July 2018 to January 2019.Results : Patients’ families who experienced the ICU diary recognized it with six beings according to time: a good idea, forgotten stuff, burdensome work, touching service, my stuff, and a thing in the memory. The ICU diary had three essential meanings for the families: communication, solace and hope, and a record of life. These findings were rearranged according to van Manen’s fundamental existential, and the lived things and lived others were remarkably confirmed.Conclusion : Patients’ families experienced various ICU diary forms over time and recognized an ICU diary as a means of communication. Therefore, the ICU diary is expected to be used as an intervention between families and healthcare providers in the ICU to support mutual communication.
13
Schokman, A., J. Cheung, A. Milton, D. Naehrig, N. Thornton, Y. Bin, K. Kairaitis, and N. Glozier. "O066 The Lived Experience of Narcolepsy - From Symptoms to Stigma." Sleep Advances 4, Supplement_1 (October 1, 2023): A26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sleepadvances/zpad035.066.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract Introduction Narcolepsy is a rare neurological sleep disorder with a substantial adverse impact on health-related quality of life and psychological well-being. Few studies have qualitatively explored how persons with narcolepsy perceive their symptoms and illness experience. Understanding how those with narcolepsy conceptualise and communicate their experience is important if we are to identify/meet their healthcare needs. Method 127 self-reported persons with narcolepsy were recruited from an Australian support group. Saturation was reached after 24, 1hr semi-structured interviews (mean age=33 (SD11), 44% reporting cataplexy). A multidisciplinary team of researchers/clinicians analysed interview transcripts using thematic analysis. Results Several key findings include: 1. participants identified fatigue, sleepiness, and two separate experiences of 'falling asleep/sleep attacks' as distinct symptoms often grouped as excessive daytime sleepiness. 2. Participants attributed their own meaning to commonly used medical terminology that differed from the literature (e.g. describing a sleep attack but calling it cataplexy). 3. ‘well-managed’ narcolepsy was determined by the level of functional impairment rather than symptom frequency. 4. Almost all participants experienced frequent anticipated and internalised- or self-stigma, likely stemming from societal devaluation of sleep and conflation of sleepiness with laziness. Conclusion Our findings suggest a needed shift in narcolepsy management that focuses on functional impairment, rather than just symptom treatment. They also highlight the need for clarification around common narcolepsy terms, as patients/physicians may use the same terminology to try and communicate different concepts. Having identified the type of stigmas experienced, future research is needed to explore if stigma-reduction reduces psychological comorbidity in narcolepsy.
14
Tomura, Miyuki. "A Prostitute's Lived Experiences of Stigma." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 40, no. 1 (2009): 51–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916209x427981.
Full textAbstract:
AbstractThis research used a semi-structured interview method and Smith and Osborn's (2003) interpretive phenomenological analysis to investigate a female prostitute's experiences of stigma associated with her work. To structure the interview schedule, Seidman's (2006) in-depth phenomenologically based interviewing method, which comprises three areas of focus, “focused life history,” “details of the experience” under investigation, and “reflection of the meaning” of the experience, was used as a general guide. Ten broad psychological themes were identified: 1) awareness of engaging in what people think is bad; (2) negative labeling by people who discover she is a prostitute; 3) hiding and lying about her identity as a prostitute to avoid being labeled negatively; 4) hiding and lying about her prostitution identity result in stress, anxiety, and exhaustion; 5) wishing she did not have to hide and lie about being a prostitute; 6) questioning and objecting to the stigmatization of prostitution; 7) managing the sense of stigmatization by persons who know about her prostitution by shifting focus away from devaluing and toward valuable qualities of prostitution; 8) developing occupational esteem and self-esteem through reflection of values; 9) compassion towards other people who suffer from stigma; and 10) resiliency.
15
Carroll, Áine. "An autoethnography of death and dying in Northern Ireland." Journal of Integrated Care 28, no. 4 (June 6, 2020): 327–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jica-02-2020-0007.
Full textAbstract:
PurposeIn Northern Ireland, access to good quality palliative care is an accepted and expected part of modern cancer care. The “Transforming Your Palliative and End of Life Care” programme “supports the design and delivery of coordinated services to enable people with palliative and end of life care needs to have choice in their place of care, greater access to services and improved outcomes at the end of their lives”. The purpose of this autoethnography is to share the author’s lived experience so that it might be used to improve services.Design/methodology/approachAutoethnography is employed as the research method. The author describes her experience of caring for father over the last six months of his life. She explores the tensions between the different players involved in the care of her father and the family and the internal conflict that developed within her as daughter, carer, care coordinator and doctor. Using multiple data sources, selected data entries were explored through reflexive, dyadic interviews to explore the experience and meaning in each story.FindingsThe author found that autoethnography was a powerful tool to give voice to the carer experience. Narration can be a powerful tool for capturing the authentic lived experiences of individuals and families and is a tool seldom utilised in integrated care. This account provides an insight into the author's expectations of integrated palliative care, as a designer and implementer and now an academic in integrated care and concludes with some reflections about the gap between policy and practice in palliative care services in Northern Ireland.Originality/valueAutoethnography can be a powerful tool for capturing the authentic lived experiences of individuals and families and is an essential component of the quadruple aim.
16
Langa, Malose. "Meaning Making in Growing Up Without a Father: Narratives of Young Adolescent Boys." Open Family Studies Journal 6, no. 1 (December 31, 2014): 56–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874922401406010056.
Full textAbstract:
This article explores young adolescent boys’ narratives and lived experiences of growing up without fathers. We conducted Individual interviews with thirty-two adolescent boys, and used discursive data analysis methods to analyse meanings that these participants made about growing up without fathers. We found that participants in the study embraced alternative voices of masculinity that were not destructive to the self and others, despite growing up without father figures. This contradicts the mainstream literature which holds that boys who grow up without fathers are highly likely to experience emotional disturbances and indulge in risk-taking behaviours.
17
Dobbins, Catherine, Kristin Gibson, Leslie Edgar, and Kim Dooley. "Lived Experiences during International Service Learning: A Semiotic Analysis of Photo Journals." Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education 27, no. 3 (August 15, 2020): 88–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2020.27388.
Full textAbstract:
International service learning (ISL) is a pedagogical approach used to prepare students to be global citizens and has emerged as a popular short-term program model for international experiences. Few studies of ISL have integrated semiotic photo analysis into their evaluations. Combining students’ photographs with text encourages reflection on knowledge and experiences as well as how they are related. The current study used semiotic analysis to understand the lived experiences of students on an ISL to Guatemala. The participatory nature of the research process was critical to the semiotic analysis, as the researchers had an understanding of the cultural perspectives and traditions that emerged in the images which could have been overlooked by a researcher without knowledge of the specific cultural context. Participants kept a photo journal of 10 images and associated narratives to depict their experiences on the ISL. Both semiotic and content analysis were conducted on each journal entry. Coding yielded nine themes: new perspectives, personal connections, impact of coffee, intercultural comparisons, reality of life in Guatemala, cultural values, impact of ISL, connection to photograph, and sense of place. Combining the semiotic and content analysis yielded concurrent meanings through narrative and visual reflections, which, when combined with the researchers’ participatory knowledge of the experience, informed future ISL projects for the research and teaching team. The combination of visual and narrative methods required students to think about what story they will tell about their experience, and brings new layers of meaning to the reflection process. Keywords: photo-based methods, experiential education, educational evaluation, Guatemala
18
Rohini T. and Punitha V. Ezhilarasu. "Lived Experience of Haemodialysis-Related Fatigue: A Phenomenological Study." Nursing Journal of India CX, no. 03 (2019): 99–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.48029/nji.2019.cx301.
Full textAbstract:
Fatigue is a widely documented symptom among patients undergoing haemodialysis. The aim of the present study was to explore the lived experience of fatigue among patients undergoing haemodialysis. The study involved a qualitative approach that used an interpretive hermeneutic phenomenology based on Van Manen’s method. The sample included seven patients undergoing haemodialysis in two selected hospitals at Ernakulam district in Kerala. They were recruited by purposive sampling. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews. The thematic analysis followed the methods as suggested by Max Van Manen for isolating themes, and four themes emerged. They were overwhelming physical toll (two sub themes; unable to do even insignificant activities and aches and discomforts); cornered to home; demanding rest and dynamic fatigue. The findings illuminate the meaning of fatigue as experienced by patients undergoing hemodialysis in Indian context, and highlight the need for its management. The generated knowledge can be used by health professionals to develop and test psychosocial interventions to mitigate fatigue in haemodialysis patients.
19
Bryant, John. "The violent mind." Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand 12, no. 1 (September 30, 2006): 85–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.9791/ajpanz.2006.08.
Full textAbstract:
This article will discuss the complex interaction of experience and biology in the formation of the violent mind. The practice of psychotherapy reflects the philosophical emphasis of hermeneutic phenomenology upon sensitivity and relationship to lived experience. Phenomenology searches for pre conscious experience. Hermeneutics shapes meaning and gives significance to such phenomena. This commentary emphasises themes of shame, fathering and remorse as they arise from a series of insightful interviews with men about individual experiences of violence. The influences of neurobiology and attachment theory are used to understand the dynamic forces behind these themes and the role that neurobiology and attachment theory play in understanding violence.
20
Mott, Rebecca L., Jon Simonsen, John Tummons, Roxanne Vandermause, Anna Ball, D. Adam Cletzer, and Jaelyn Peckman. "What is the Meaning of Youth Livestock Production? A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study." Journal of Agricultural Education 63, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 83–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5032/jae.2022.03083.
Full textAbstract:
Raising livestock for food production is a unique cultural phenomenon. It has been well documented that showing livestock as part of 4-H contributes to practical skills, knowledge, and life skills. While it is common to view livestock production through skills-based or economic lenses, there are subtle nuances of the phenomenon, social, cultural, and emotional aspects that are harder to capture. The purpose of this study was to generate an interpretation of the meaning of livestock production for long-standing 4-H livestock project members, and to uncover how these project experiences manifest in other aspects of members' lives. This project answers the question, "What does it mean to be a livestock producer?" Based on the assumption that understanding is rooted in lived experience, we used a Hermeneutic approach to examine transcripts of in-depth audio recorded interviews with 4-H members who are high school juniors or seniors and have been enrolled in livestock projects throughout their entire 4-H careers. In an additional photo elicitation activity, we examined participants' reflections on livestock photographs from their childhood. We uncovered two overarching patterns, paradoxical in nature: a) Livestock Production as a Culture of Care and Connection; and b) Livestock Production as a Culture of Loss and Misunderstanding. Patterns illuminated in this research inform educational experiences surrounding youth livestock production. This study also adds to agriculture industry's understanding of how youth experience growing up in livestock production. Finally, this study provides insight into the importance of exploring the ways livestock producers engage with consumers about agriculture.
21
Temple, Matthew, and Terry Lynn Gall. "Working Through Existential Anxiety Toward Authenticity: A Spiritual Journey of Meaning Making." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 58, no. 2 (February 8, 2016): 168–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167816629968.
Full textAbstract:
All human beings experience life’s givens or the ultimate concerns of death, isolation, freedom, and meaninglessness. Whether there is awareness or not, these givens influence how individuals interact and relate to self, others, and the world. Failure to understand these existential concerns can lead an individual to behave inauthentically in relation to her core values. This article will illuminate the role of existential psychotherapy in revealing the effect of life’s givens on an individual’s lived experience. First, this article will ground existential therapy within its philosophical roots. Second, it will highlight the use of the phenomenological method in existential psychotherapy as a means of building a strong therapeutic alliance between therapist and client. Attention to the client’s lived experience in a value-free way will provide space for the client to work through his or her existential anxiety toward authenticity. The client, in feeling deeply understood will be able to respond more authentically to the therapeutic relationship and by extension to others in his or her world. A framework for understanding how life’s givens can manifest across the physical, personal, social, and spiritual life dimensions are presented. This framework is used to conceptualize a case study of a client struggling with existential issues.
22
Rani, Akanksha, Sphoorthi G. Prabhu, Thirumoorthy Ammapattian, Janaki Trichy, and Sojan Antony. "Lived Experiences of Persons with Chronic Schizophrenia Living in the Community." Social Science Protocols 2 (September 27, 2019): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.7565/ssp.2019.2656.
Full textAbstract:
Background and Purpose: Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder which impacts a person’s ability to successfully function in the community. When it interacts with structural and situational stress like poverty, homelessness and unemployment, it can lead to negative experiences and makes a person vulnerable to abuse or even develop resilience or retaining a meaningful life within the limitation of the disorder. The study aims to understand how individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia define and evaluate their experience of living in the community; personal and environmental strengths, impact of illness on their personal and social life, the challenges and barriers they meet in their day to day life and how they overcome those challenges. Methods: The study focuses on lived experiences and deriving meaning from those experiences from a service user perspective. Therefore, Hermeneutic phenomenological approach will be used. In-depth interviews will be conducted over the course of four months to elicit client’s narratives of their experiences. The interviews are transcribed, read and coded to cluster thematic aspects in each case by using ATLAS.ti.v.7. Data will be collected till saturation point is reached and participants are from various age-group, socio-economic status, ethnicity and educational background, living in the Community. Implication: Participants’ stories would narrate sources of strength, process of normalization, describing instances of discrimination, social and structural factors which they encounter affecting their help-seeking behaviour and how these factors act as facilitator and barriers in their day to day life. Findings would suggest the need for advocacy services which are discussed through recommendations and suggestions.
23
Yoon, Hyemi, and Sunyoung Kim. "A Study on Limits and Growth Potential of K-POP Content in Metaverse: Focused on the User Experience of Generation Z." Korean Society of Culture and Convergence 45, no. 11 (November 30, 2023): 115–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.33645/cnc.2023.11.45.11.115.
Full textAbstract:
This study aimed to analyze the inconveniences and limitations of the experience specialized in the K-POP genre in the metaverse platform and its future utility and potential. To achieve this, Giorgi's research method, which allows for the exploration of the meaning and essence of experiences from the perspective of Generation Z users, was adopted. In-depth interviews were conducted to collect data, and the research results are as follows: Firstly, active consumers of K-POP exhibit distinct behaviors compared to general users. They engage in social consumption behaviors, and there is a clear distinction between mediators and users in terms of interpersonal relationships. Second, to enhance user satisfaction, features beyond artist interactions and chat functionalities are required, regardless of the type of K-POP user. These features should focus on user-to-user sharing and empathy. Third, approaches incorporating live elements that can only be experienced within the metaverse platform need to be developed and implemented. Finally, the utilization of metaverse platforms by entertainment planning companies is predicted to satisfy user desires through content expansion. It is expected to serve as a medium for fandom among Generation Z, potentially leading to continuous user influx and serving as a tool for future revenue generation.
24
Arvola, Mattias, and Johan Linder. "Know Thy Users by Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis." Journal of Interaction Science 6 (October 20, 2018): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.24982/jois.1719018.003.
Full textAbstract:
One approach to getting to know a user and understanding the user experience (UX) is phenomenology. Currently, there is a lack of clearly defined methods for phenomenological analysis of user experience in design projects. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is an approach developed in psychology, and in this article, it is adapted to the case of a pro bono design project at a UX design agency supporting a disadvantaged group of people, newly arrived immigrants to Sweden. The design project involved research on how the immigrants experienced a service that introduced them to the job market. The adapted method, UX IPA, contributed to the pro bono project with a focus on both experience and meaning, which is important in design projects that relate to major events in users’ lives. The method was considered less appropriate in UX projects for specific products with highly instrumental use. The method can, in many cases, be too costly. However, costs can possibly be reduced by top-down approaches. In commercial UX projects, the method may be appropriate for the fuzzy front-end of design and innovation, but clients may be unimpressed by the small sample size. This can potentially be alleviated by mixed-methods approaches.
25
Saritshasombat, Patrapon, and Bampenchit Sangchart. "Mothers’ Lived Experiences in Caring for Adolescents with Leukemia in the Northeast of Thailand." Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences 15, no. 12 (December 30, 2021): 3455–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.53350/pjmhs2115123455.
Full textAbstract:
Aim: This research was to explored the lived experiences of the mothers caring for adolescents with leukemia, using a qualitative research method based on the concept of interpretative phenomenology/ hermeneutic phenomenology. Methods: Data were collected by in-depth interviews with 15 mothers of the adolescents with leukemia who had been treated or followed up for treatment in the pediatric cancer ward and the pediatric outpatient department in a tertiary hospital in the northeastern region of Thailand. The qualitative data were analyzed based on the technique of Diekelmann and Allen. Results: The study results revealed the meanings of mothers caring for adolescents with leukemia and experience of leukemia, which can be summarized into the following key points. 1) The meaning of life as mothers of adolescents with leukemia was defined as a suffer life. 2) The lived experiences of mothers of adolescents with leukemia consisted of 3 sub-themes: (1) caring with patience (providing care based on the symptoms, strengthening the mind, need to be the ones who suffer instead of seeing their children suffer), (2) a life of struggle (financial struggles, psychological struggles, supporting received) and (3) beliefs and care (beliefs -based care and beliefs -based parenting). Conclusion: The results of this research led to a clearer understanding about the experiences of mothers of adolescents with leukemia. The data from the study can be used to support practice and management of nursing education and research in the future. Keywords: Mothers’ Lived Experiences, Caring, Adolescents with Leukemia, Phenomenology
26
Waite, Jennifer, and Martha M. Whitfield. "Picturing the researcher: Using photovoice to document the research assistant experience during the COVID-19 pandemic." Journal of Applied Arts & Health 12, no. 3 (December 1, 2021): 367–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00086_1.
Full textAbstract:
The article is a reflection by two graduate research assistants (GRAs) who experienced the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the in-person interactions through which qualitative researchers usually learn about human experiences. With in-person research curtailed, the authors were compelled to think creatively and find other ways to continue their research and develop meaning. The researchers reflected on their experiences as GRAs for the study ‘Thriving in Canada: Learning from the (photo) voices of women living on a low income engaged in action research to improve access to health and social services’. Taking advantage of pandemic-related study delays, the researchers explored the photovoice method in more depth and used photovoice to document their own lived experience as GRAs, and their learning. They practised self-reflexivity and worked to improve their visual-based photovoice facilitation skills. This illustrated essay is the story of the authors’ experiences over the past year working as GRAs during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
27
Höök, Kristina. "Affective loop experiences: designing for interactional embodiment." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364, no. 1535 (December 12, 2009): 3585–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0202.
Full textAbstract:
Involving our corporeal bodies in interaction can create strong affective experiences. Systems that both can be influenced by and influence users corporeally exhibit a use quality we name an affective loop experience. In an affective loop experience, (i) emotions are seen as processes, constructed in the interaction, starting from everyday bodily, cognitive or social experiences; (ii) the system responds in ways that pull the user into the interaction, touching upon end users' physical experiences; and (iii) throughout the interaction the user is an active, meaning-making individual choosing how to express themselves—the interpretation responsibility does not lie with the system. We have built several systems that attempt to create affective loop experiences with more or less successful results. For example, eMoto lets users send text messages between mobile phones, but in addition to text, the messages also have colourful and animated shapes in the background chosen through emotion-gestures with a sensor-enabled stylus pen. Affective Diary is a digital diary with which users can scribble their notes, but it also allows for bodily memorabilia to be recorded from body sensors mapping to users' movement and arousal and placed along a timeline. Users can see patterns in their bodily reactions and relate them to various events going on in their lives. The experiences of building and deploying these systems gave us insights into design requirements for addressing affective loop experiences, such as how to design for turn-taking between user and system, how to create for ‘open’ surfaces in the design that can carry users' own meaning-making processes, how to combine modalities to create for a ‘unity’ of expression, and the importance of mirroring user experience in familiar ways that touch upon their everyday social and corporeal experiences. But a more important lesson gained from deploying the systems is how emotion processes are co-constructed and experienced inseparable from all other aspects of everyday life. Emotion processes are part of our social ways of being in the world; they dye our dreams, hopes and bodily experiences of the world. If we aim to design for affective interaction experiences, we need to place them into this larger picture.
28
Molley, Scott, Amy Derochie, Jessica Teicher, Vibhuti Bhatt, Shara Nauth, Lynn Cockburn, and Sylvia Langlois. "Patient Experience in Health Professions Curriculum Development." Journal of Patient Experience 5, no. 4 (May 15, 2018): 303–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374373518765795.
Full textAbstract:
To enhance student learning, many health profession programs are embracing involvement of patients in their curricula, yet little is known about the impact of such an experience on patients. Objective: To understand the experiences of patients who contributed to the creation of a Verbatim Reader’s Theater used in health professions curriculum. Methods: A semi-structured interview was conducted with a focus group of 3 patients who participated in curriculum development. The interview was recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed for themes using van Manen approach to hermeneutic phenomenology. Results: Five themes emerged: (1) contextualizing contribution, (2) addressing expectations, (3) changing health-care service delivery, (4) sharing common experiences, and (5) coordinating participation. Conclusion: Patients had a positive experience contributing to curriculum development and found meaning in sharing their lived experience to shape the values of future clinicians. Strategies to promote continued success in partnership between patients and health professional curriculum developers include clear communication about the project’s direction and early discussion of patient role and expectations.
29
Austin-Keiller, Amanda, Melissa Park, Seiyan Yang, Nancy E. Mayo, Lesley K. Fellows, and Marie-Josée Brouillette. "“Alone, there is nobody”: A qualitative study of the lived experience of loneliness in older men living with HIV." PLOS ONE 18, no. 4 (April 14, 2023): e0277399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277399.
Full textAbstract:
Loneliness has been shown to be a predictor of poor health and early mortality in the general population. Older men living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are at heightened risk of experiencing loneliness. Here, we aim to describe the lived experience of loneliness in older men living with HIV and identify targets for intervention. We used grounded theory with a theoretical framework of narrative phenomenology to focus data collection and analysis on significant experiences related to loneliness. Based on individual narrative interviews with 10 older men living with HIV, experiences of loneliness related to “multiple losses,” “being invisible” and “hiding out” as emergent themes. Participants also described living with loneliness by “finding meaning,” “creating social experiences,” “pursuing interests and things to ‘live for’” and attending events in which “everyone is welcome.” The discussion situates experiences of loneliness within the accumulation of losses and stigmas over time and how the participants strategies for living with loneliness could inform interventions to reduce loneliness in older men living with HIV at individual and societal levels.
30
Dickerson, Whitney, and Timothy Reid Nelson. "I Will Meet You There, and We Can Be Anxious Together: The Lived Experiences of College Students with Anxiety Disorders." American Journal of Qualitative Research 8, no. 2 (March 24, 2024): 85–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.29333/ajqr/14394.
Full textAbstract:
<i>The purpose of this qualitative transcendental phenomenological study was to understand the essence of the shared lived experiences of undergraduate college students with anxiety disorders at two universities in the Southeastern United States. Ellis’s cognitive theory, rational emotive behavior therapy, guided the study which took place at a mid-sized, public nonsectarian university and a small, private liberal arts college. The central research question elicited rich data regarding the shared lived experiences of the study participants. The four research sub-questions address participants’ perceptions regarding the impact of their disorders on their lifestyles and academic performance. A purposeful criterion sample was used to select the participants who completed a questionnaire, open-ended individual interviews, a single focus group interview, and participant journals. Phenomenological reduction was used to create a composite integration of meaning and the essence of the lived experience of the participants. Data results identified five themes: (a) social fears, (b) stressor issues, (c) generational issues, (d) academic performance barriers, and (e) institutional education and accommodation preferences.</i>
31
Stuhr, Paul T., and April L. Denny. "The Lived Experience of Mindfulness in Adventure-Based Learning." Education Sciences 12, no. 9 (September 17, 2022): 630. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci12090630.
Full textAbstract:
Adventure-based learning (ABL) is an innovative K-12 instructional model that continues to be used in physical education to promote intrapersonal and interpersonal relationship skills. ABL incorporates low initiatives/cooperative activities coupled with periods of reflection to help enhance the likelihood of transferring intrapersonal and interpersonal relationship skills to other areas of K-12 student life. Mindfulness is a way of consciously and nonjudgmentally being aware of the present moment. Mindfulness practices (MPs) hold tremendous potential as a pedagogical tool in helping physical educators generate greater attention, equanimity, and compassion for themselves and their students. To further explore the impact of MPs for students, this study focused on undergraduate perception with regard to comprehension, practice, and demonstration of the possible benefits of MPs in three separate 16-week ABL teacher education courses. Specifically, we wanted to explore how students in the teacher education course conceptualized mindfulness as a phenomenon and how MPs played a part of their lived experience. Three themes were discovered: conceptualizing mindfulness, student interest with mindfulness, and perceived outcomes from mindfulness practices. The findings provide a deeper understanding of the participants’ meaning making of mindfulness, their overall buy-in and openness in using MPs, and the perceived benefits in using these contemplative practices.
32
Sethi, Bharati. "Using the eye of the camera to bare racism: A photovoice project." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 28, no. 4 (December 23, 2016): 17–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol28iss4id294.
Full textAbstract:
INTRODUCTION: Researchers have well established that visible minorities experience discrimination in the labour market and racism at work; however, few studies have explored the experiences of immigrant visible minority women, especially those residing outside of large urban areas. The focus of this article is to explore participants’ experiences of discrimination and racism using photovoice methodology.METHODS: This Canadian study used an arts-based qualitative method in the form of a modified photovoice where 17 participants took photographs of their work and health experiences and discussed the meaning of their photographs and narratives in the interviews.FINDINGS: Results indicate that participants experienced discrimination in the labour market, and racism at work. In the absence of language, participants found the eye of the camera as an effective methodological tool to uncover and communicate their lived experiences of discrimination and racism.CONCLUSIONS: Social workers can utilise photovoice for exploring sensitive issues such as experiences of discrimination and racism in a safe context with marginalised populations. They prevent discrimination and racism in their communities.
33
Hansen, Helle Cathrine, and Erika Gubrium. "Activating the person in the changing situation." Journal of Comparative Social Work 16, no. 1 (October 11, 2021): 61–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v16i1.373.
Full textAbstract:
For several decades, the turn towards labour activation has dominated European social work and social work institutions. While social work research and practice focused on labour activation have long considered “the person in the situation”, exploring the service users’ experiences at specific moments and contexts in time, we argue that labour activation is an ongoing process involving a complex interplay of factors (structural, social, personal), and that these are shaped by changes and ruptures throughout a person’s life course. Furthermore, the changing situation is not an objective fact, though its meaning is actively constructed by the service user. Asking how participants in a labour activation programme subjectively make meaning of their activation experiences, with reference to changing personal histories and institutional encounters over time, we shift the focus from social work’s emphasis on “the person in the situation”, and we open the concept to include “the person in the changing situation” to help enable a more dynamic analysis of the activation process. The concept accounts for the interaction between subjective meaning making and institutional structures and offers, as these change over time. The study is based on fieldwork in the Norwegian labour and welfare services (NAV). We present three participants in the Norwegian Qualification Programme as illustrative cases, each with distinct profiles, to illustrate how service users actively refer to changing situations – as these are shaped by time, biography and institutional movement – when making meaning of their labour activation experiences. The findings have implications for social work research and practice, as matters of biography, timing and life course trajectories must be accounted for to gain a more accurate picture of the labour activation experience. A consideration of institutional and life course change also offers a better professional understanding of the complexity of lived experiences when working with service users, potentially enabling a more effective practice.
34
Wilson, Dana Burdnell, Linda Darrell, and Dasha J. Rhodes. "Autumn Divas: Women of Color Who Achieved Doctorate Degrees After Age 50." Urban Social Work 4, no. 2 (May 18, 2020): 125–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/usw-d-20-00004.
Full textAbstract:
The Autumn Divas study objective was to examine the lived experiences of women of color who achieved doctoral degrees after the age of 50. This study used qualitative methods to reflect the thoughts, feelings and experiences of the participants; the strengths they had in common, the support of family and friends, and the personal, professional, and financial challenges they faced in their respective journeys. This phenomenological study described the meaning of the experience for the participants, as they matriculated through their doctoral programs, explored in three focus group sessions, with nine participants. Results showed that they experienced similar journeys, which led to the advancement of their personal growth, and sought to motivate other women of color. Most participant's pursuit of a doctorate at this time in their lives was a means of self-fulfillment and empowerment. In conclusion, the participants had deferred this goal, but were receptive to new challenges and perspectives, and validated each other's stories in the focus group discussions. Most had a message for the sisters coming behind them: pursue your dreams; make the investment in yourself; be a source of support and wisdom for each other; and contribute to uplifting your community.
35
Shin, Hye Sook, and Kyung Hee Lee. "The Lived Experience of Postpatal Women in Che-Ju island." Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing 4, no. 2 (September 28, 1998): 271–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.1998.4.2.271.
Full textAbstract:
The purpose of this study is to explore and describe the experiences of postpatral woman, Korean postpatal care that Korean women experience afterbirth, to find the meaning of their lived experiences and to contribute to the base Korean maternal nursing. The method is to phenomenological through participant in depth interview. The subjects of this study were 8 women who are 1 week to less or over 100 days afterbirth. Their age rang from 22 to 33. All available data was collected from 26th of March 1988 to 10 of July 1998. A tape recorder was used with the permission of the subjects to prevent the loss of spoken information. The analysis of the data was made through Colaizzi's. The result of the study was as follow: There were eleven themes and 8 structures, Structure 1 : Acceptance to the traditional Sanhujori, Structure 2 : Powerlessness, Structure 3 : Disappointment and Being sorry, Structure 4 : Attachment as mother, Structure 5 : Anxiety on bring up, Structure 6 : Praying the well being of baby. Structure 7 : Negative body image 8 : Information seeking, Structure. In conclusion, nurses have to help Korean women afterbirth who are in difficulties physically, emotionally, socio-psychologically as direct caregivers and educators. As continually finding out the Korean postpartal care. Sanhujori, we can build the our original maternal nursing.
36
French, H. C. "Occupational stresses and coping mechanisms of therapy radiographers – a qualitative approach." Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice 4, no. 1 (June 2004): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1460396904000044.
Full textAbstract:
It is believed that health care workers are particularly susceptible to developing stress-related illness because of the nature of their work. The purpose of this research was to identify occupational stresses that may or may not be unique to therapy radiographers, identify the coping mechanisms that are used to combat work-related stress and gain insight into the lived experiences of this group of therapy radiographers. A phenomenological (qualitative) approach was used to identify the radiographers' perception of occupational stresses and coping mechanisms. Data collection was through in-depth interviews that were transcribed and analysed using Colaizzi methodology. The results identified stresses within the following categories: personal performance, patient contact, working environment, communication, management, professional behaviour and departmental working. These results support the stresses identified through other research studies on health care workers. Coping mechanisms identified include Social Support, Confrontive Coping, Escape-Avoidance, Self-Controlling, Distancing and Positive Reappraisal. The most frequently used coping mechanisms were social support, confrontive coping and escape-avoidance. This research has also identified a new stress; the stress associated with the ‘potential to make errors’ i.e. the acute awareness of the damaging effects of high energy X-rays if a mistake is made.This research has attempted to provide insight into the working world of the therapy radiographer and to discover the meaning and information specific to their ‘lived experience’. It is hoped that this research provides the reader with a deeper understanding of the nature and meaning of the experience.
37
Bhattarai, Sabina, and Kalpana Sharma. "LIVED EXPERIENCES OF PATIENTS WITH HEMODIALYSIS IN CHITWAN." Journal of Chitwan Medical College 12, no. 3 (September 29, 2022): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.54530/jcmc.1143.
Full textAbstract:
Background: Chronic Kidney Disease is a serious, long-term illness that is increasing rapidly worldwide. Hemodialysis is the treatment option for the patients with this disease, which affects their daily life in both positive and negative perspective. This study was undertaken to explore the lived experiences of patients with hemodialysis in Chitwan. Methods: Qualitative descriptive phenomenological study was used and a total twelve patients receiving hemodialysis from 11th August 2019 to 9th September 2019 were selected purposively for the study. Data were collected using in-depth interview guidelines and analyzed using Colaizzi’s seven steps of analysis. Results: Five themes and eighteen subthemes were extracted from the study. They were i) perception about chronic kidney disease (irremediable condition, lethal illness and strenuous ailment with living in confinement) ii) pathway to illness identification (symptoms experience, diagnostic journey and treatment options iii) meaning of living with hemodialysis (renewed hope of survival, uncertainty of life, restricted lifestyle and substandard quality of living) iv) impact of hemodialysis on daily life (soothing effect on body, physical discomfort due to side-effects, mental anguish, social detachment, breach in relationship and economic adversity) and v) journey towards adaptation (acceptance of illness and inability of coping). Conclusions: Patients perceive hemodialysis as a hope for survival and tool for relieving their physical tribulations. But they also experience various physical, psychological, social and financial troubles in their daily life. Hence, it is mandatory for health care providers to understand their experiences to provide them need based holistic care. Nepal government also needs to formulate health policy addressing the need of hemodialysis patients.
38
Wilhsson, Marie, Erika Hagstrom Santo da Silva, Susanna Loander Löf, and Margaretha Larsson. "Swedish school nurses' experience of identifying students who are exposed to violence – a qualitative study." British Journal of Child Health 4, no. 3 (June 2, 2023): 122–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/chhe.2023.4.3.122.
Full textAbstract:
Aim: This study aims to describe how school nurses identify students who are being exposed to violence. Design: The study has a qualitative design focusing on illuminating the meanings embodied in lived experiences Method: Fourteen qualitative interviews with school nurses were conducted and a descriptive qualitative meaning analysis was used to cast light on the phenomenon. The COREQ checklist was used to ensure trustworthiness. Results: Four themes were highlighted: opportunity in the health dialogue, necessity to create and prove trustworthiness, cooperation with other professionals, and awareness of factors that could complicate reporting exposure to violence. The study provided new insights such as the school nurse having an important role in the identification of students exposed to violence. It is important that school nurses have an open approach and are systematic in the health dialogue, using questions about violence to create opportunities for students to talk about their living conditions.
39
Cisneros, Yone Vilchez, Doris Fuster- Guillen, Roger Pedro Norabuena Figueroa, and Reyna Luisa Cruz Shuan. "Phenomological Happiness of the History and Geography Teacher in Rural." International Journal of Higher Education 9, no. 9 (November 2, 2020): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v9n9p41.
Full textAbstract:
The purpose of this research was to describe, analyze and interpret the essence of the experience lived by teachers of the specialties of History and Geography in Huanca Sancos - Ayacucho. Reflective and empirical methods of hermeneutical phenomenology were developed; the latter is responsible for addressing reality based on the subject's consciousness in understanding the meaning of what has been experienced; research was oriented from the qualitative approach and interpretive paradigm. The information was obtained from a sample made up of teachers who narrated their experiences through anecdotes. Close observation and a conversational interview were also used as instruments and techniques. The analysis and interpretation of the information allowed to discover individual and group meanings such as happiness, reflection, satisfaction, and tranquility; thus building as a general thematic unit of this study: the happiness of the teacher, understood as fullness, well-being and satisfaction; it is actually the source of all pedagogical transformation. To conclude, it can be stated that the study has the character of stimulation and satisfaction in the practice of pedagogical happiness as a habit that leads to making thinking more flexible and discovering better options for a change.
40
Trabelsi-Zoghlami, Amira, and Mourad Touzani. "How real are virtual experiences?" European Journal of Marketing 53, no. 8 (August 12, 2019): 1612–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejm-10-2017-0776.
Full textAbstract:
Purpose This paper aims to explore the virtual experience to understand its components and its effects on consumers’ real world. Design/methodology/approach Our approach relies on a rarely used projective method: “Album-on-Line” (AOL). This technique allows identifying consumers’ representations of their experience. It uses images to immerse participants in a virtual experience and to lead an individual reflection, then a group reflection. Findings Virtual experiences have utilitarian, hedonic, psychological and social dimensions. When immersing in virtual experiences, consumers’ perception and consumption of products and services change. A projection occurs leading to an identification to virtual characters. This projection also leads to a consumption aiming at finding back the excitement and challenge lived during virtual experiences. Research limitations/implications The main limitation of this research relates with the fuzzy distinction between the virtual and the electronic in consumers’ minds and even in the literature. Future work should propose a multidisciplinary definition of the virtual experience, considering its specificities and components. Practical implications This research offers companies a better understanding of consumers’ motivations to live virtual experiences. It may bring insights on how to provide a more customized offering and a more adapted communication. Originality/value Compared to previous work, the present research offers a better understanding of the components of online and offline virtual experiences by considering the virtual in its broadest meaning. The use of the AOL technique enabled a closer look at the specificities of the virtual experience as perceived by consumers. It was also possible to explore the “post-experience” stage by understanding the effect of virtual experiences on consumers’ perceptions and consumptions.
41
Lethborg, Carrie, Penelope Schofield, and David Kissane. "The advanced cancer patient experience of undertaking meaning and purpose (MaP) therapy." Palliative and Supportive Care 10, no. 3 (March 22, 2012): 177–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147895151100085x.
Full textAbstract:
AbstractObjective:The objective of this study was to describe the experience of undertaking meaning and purpose (MaP) therapy for patients with advanced cancer, with an aim of refining therapeutic processes involved prior to pilot testing. Specifically, we were interested in examining the themes arising from participation in the intervention in relation to our therapeutic goals, and how acceptable both the number of sessions and processes used were.Method:A convenience sample of people living with advanced cancer was recruited to participate in this process, resulting in 24 therapy sessions for analysis.Results:A thematic analysis of each session illustrated that the process of MaP therapy is one that encourages reflection, offers insights, and can be confrontational, but can also allow participants to “shift” their perspective and focus onto meaningful goals. Results illustrate how the therapist creates a therapeutic frame that holds up a poignant portrayal of the meaning of life lived, and mirrors this to the patient, such that they grasp its rich texture. Participants' descriptions showed how they were buoyed forward as a result, with renewed vigor and enthusiasm, despite their illness and any physical restrictions that it imposed.Significance of results:A planned pilot test of this intervention will enable us to determine potential effect sizes of this therapy in reducing distress and increasing meaning prior to a full randomized controlled trial. Understanding the processes involved and the experiences of participation in meaning-based therapies is crucial to the future strength of this area of psychotherapy.
42
Pama, Jerlyn D., and Nordy D. Siason Jr. "Single Blessedness as a Lived Experience in Roman Catholic Lay Institutes." Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies 4, no. 2 (June 12, 2022): 209–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/jhsss.2022.4.2.25.
Full textAbstract:
This phenomenological research aimed to explore single blessedness as a lived experience in lay institutes of the Roman Catholics. An interview was used as the primary tool for extracting the meaning of single blessedness among laywomen. There were twelve (12) cases selected to undergo data saturation for emerging themes and categories. Findings revealed two categories of single blessedness—to serve God and serve the family. Having the desire to serve God and the community, especially the poorest of the poor, the unmarried female members in Roman Catholic lay institutes had shown their charity through opportunities to be with the needy, have prayerful reflection and discernment, and offer their God-given talents to others. Their experience of reluctance to respond to this vertical call led to uneasiness and incompleteness. Meanwhile, another cohort of women found blessedness as a choice to selflessly serve their family while enjoying independence and autonomy. This was described as a traversal free from worries and other responsibilities and full of filial love from friends and family members. Staying single for the rest of their lives, these women described daily life as prayerful and charitable or chaste and pure in words and deeds with a strong and decisive commitment to work for their families and the poor. Nevertheless, these women, in blessed singleness, nourished themselves as well as prayers, positive relationships with themselves and others, their families, and most especially God.
43
Curryer, Bernadette, Roger J. Stancliffe, Angela Dew, and Michele Y. Wiese. "Choice and Control Within Family Relationships: The Lived Experience of Adults With Intellectual Disability." Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 56, no. 3 (June 1, 2018): 188–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1352/1934-9556-56.3.188.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract Increased choice and control is a driving force of current disability policy in Australia for people with disability and their families. Yet little is known of how adults with intellectual disability (ID) actually experience choice and control within their family relationships. We used interpretative phenomenological analysis of individual, semistructured interviews conducted with 8 Australian adults with ID to understand the meaning given to their experience of family support received around choice and decision making. Three themes were identified: (1) centrality of family, (2) experience of self-determination, and (3) limitations to choice and control. The participants identified trusted family members from whom guidance around choice and decision making was both sought and received, often involving mutual decision making and limitations to control.
44
Pan, Haimin. "GRIEF EXPERIENCE PATTERNS AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN RURAL CHINA: A LATENT PROFILE ANALYSIS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S630. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2347.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract Grief experiences among older adults in China are understudied, though a variety of negative bereavement outcomes have been delineated. The present work sought to explore grief patterns among Chinese older people in rural areas, as well as the factors influencing the bereavement results. Participants were 352 older residents who responded to a face-to-face interview and lived in rural areas in Zhejiang Province of China. Latent profile analysis (LPA) was used to identify subtypes of class membership in combing complicated grief (CG), depression, anxiety, and meaning in life. Afterwards, these subgroups were compared on demographic characteristics and meaning making variable. The LPA model best fitting the data was a three-class solution comprised of “adaptive” (n=235; 66.8% of the sample), “moderate maladaptive” (n=83; 23.6% of the sample), and “severe maladaptive” groups (n=34; 9.7% of the sample). Compared to the “severe maladaptive” group, participants in the “adaptive” group had better physical functioning, higher education and incomes levels, and less meaning making engagement, while participants in the “moderate maladaptive” group had longer bereavement duration, better physical functioning, and less meaning making activities. Relative to the “moderate maladaptive” group, participants who were adaptive to the loss possessed longer bereavement duration better physical functioning, higher education and incomes levels, and less meaning making engagement. Findings suggest three distinct patterns of bereavement outcomes among Chinese older adults. Multiple factors impacting the results were taken into consideration. Future replication is necessary to validate these subgroups, and professional services should be provided to bereaved older Chinese in need.
45
Silva Pereira, Patrícia, and Maria Antónia Rebelo Botelho. "Love at the core – the phenomena of love in the therapeutic relationship in nursing." Pensar Enfermagem - Revista Científica | Journal of Nursing 24, no. 2 (July 15, 2021): 87–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.56732/pensarenf.v24i2.175.
Full textAbstract:
Love is a small word that carries many meanings. In everyday life, we refer to love without considering its meaning because the meaning depends on the object to which we refer. Love in nursing is considered one of the pillars of the science of caring. However, this assumption has some misunderstandings. It is important to clarify the scope of love in a therapeutic relationship and to understand how love manifests itself. Objective: To understand the lived experience of love by mental health nurses in the therapeutic relationship in nursing. Method: The study used a qualitative methodology, phenomenology of practice established by Max van Manen, rooted in philosophy, using philosophical, philological, and human sciences methods. Experiential reports were collected from 10 mental health nurses. The understanding of the meanings and senses of the phenomenon was based on radical reflection using epoché and reduction. Results: Love shows itself as seeing the invisible; as the impossibility of non-action; as reassuring gestures; as “going the extra mile”; as being attuned; as being connected; as letting the other to emerge; as hosting the other in oneself; as a pathic experience; and as a personal cost. Conclusion: Love is a transformative ingredient of the therapeutic relationship experience. This study is a possible understanding of the phenomenon of love in the therapeutic relationship in nursing. In addition, the study is a contribution to help clarify and demystify stereotypes and trigger reflections on the everyday relationships in nursing. Therefore, it may promote understandings that make the practice of care more sensitive and closer to the world of each patient.
46
Loidolt, Sophie. "Sinnräume." Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 68, no. 2 (May 5, 2020): 167–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2020-0011.
Full textAbstract:
AbstractThe paper introduces the concept of “spaces of meaning,” distilled from the work of political theorist Hannah Arendt, and used as an interpretative tool to understand some central theoretical moves in the The Human Condition. By focusing on activities which actualise conditional structures and which thereby generate experiences and meaning, I present a phenomenological re-interpretation of Arendt’s three basic activities of labour, work, and action, which actualise the conditions of life, worldliness, and plurality. The term “spaces of meaning” indicates how the unfolding of certain activities simultaneously creates and structures spaces and meaningful orientation which involves a certain temporality, spatiality, corporeality, and intersubjectivity. I differentiate between activity-based and visibility-based spaces of meaning and present a dynamic interpretation of their interplay. In doing so, I challenge Seyla Benhabib’s view that part of Arendt’s methodology contains what Benhabib calls “phenomenological essentialism.” Furthermore, this analysis aims at developing an analytical tool and flexible framework also beyond Arendt scholarship. Phenomenologists can use this model of “spaces of meaning” for the task of reclaiming experience as world-building and world-opening, also in a normative sense, and of demonstrating how structures and orders are lived while they condition and form spaces of meaning. If we want to understand, criticise, act, or change something, this subjective and intersubjective perspective will remain indispensable.
47
Byun, Siyoung. "A Narrative Inquiry on the Experience of Irregular Counselors." Korean Association for Qualitative Inquiry 8, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 265–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.30940/jqi.2022.8.3.265.
Full textAbstract:
The purpose of this study is to explore how employment patterns affect the counselor’s life, and how the counselor overcomes the difficulties of job instability and burn-out and seeks growth as a counselor. For this purpose, the narrative method of Clandinin and Connelly(2000) was used and the data were analyzed with the three-dimensional narrative space which means time, sociality and place in mind. As a research participant, a counselor was selected worked a total of six as irregular counselor after obtaining a certificate, and reported that such work experience was an important event in her lives. As a result of the study, the participant have experienced pain and exhaustion due to employment anxiety and low social awareness, but have not neglected her own efforts to continue to grow as experts. In the process, she has experienced awareness and solidarity of herself and the entire counseling community. The meaning of working experience as a irregular counselor was ‘‘I’ who lived very hard’, ‘‘I’ who had nothing left but a resume’, ‘‘I’ who could not give up counseling despite it’, ‘underage expert, cheap contract counselor ‘We’’. Based on the results of this study, the work experience as a irregular counselor was discussed in terms of personal, practical, and social legitimacy, and the significance of the study and the follow-up study were suggested. In particular, this study is valuable in that it provides implications for improving the current status of the counselor’s employment environment by examining in depth based on the actual life of counselors
48
Noviani, Wulan, and Elsye Maria Rosa. "“Discover the meaning of professionalism”: nursing alumni experience on professional identity: a phenomenology study." Bali Medical Journal 10, no. 3 (December 30, 2021): 1257–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.15562/bmj.v10i3.2870.
Full textAbstract:
Introduction: Professional identity is nursing education institutions' main goal that influences self-perception on the profession's job responsibilities, roles, and characteristics due to professional socialization. However, integrating professional identity to nursing career’s alumni of Bachelor Nursing Program Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta remains limited to explore. This study aims to explore the Bachelor nursing alumni’s lived experience integrating professional identity into their careers in Indonesia.Methods: A phenomenological approach was used in this study, along with a maximum variation sampling technique. There are seventeen nursing alumni recruited who had been working as professionals in various nursing careers. The data was collected by a semi-structured interview between 60-90 minutes through video calls on WhatsApp. Data analysis was used Colaizzi’s methods and Nvivo 12TM Plus.Results: Three themes emerged from data; 1) Discover the meaning of professionalism, with three sub-themes: fulfill professional qualification, having expertise, and apply theory into practice; 2) Internalization Islamic values & beliefs, with four sub-themes: caring, having Islamic spirituality, giving excellence, and responsibility; 3) Awareness worked as a professional, with four-subthemes passionate, multitasking, independence, and apply soft skills.Conclusion: Nursing alumni integrated nursing professionalism into their identity—incorporation of professional identity impacts personal and professional image and boosted nurses’ careers.
49
Lee, So young, and Jung A. Kim. "Lived experiences toward moral distress among long-term care hospital nurses: A phenomenological approach." Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education 26, no. 2 (May 31, 2020): 167–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5977/jkasne.2020.26.2.167.
Full textAbstract:
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the subjective experience of moral distress among nurses working in long-term care hospitals.Methods: A phenomenological approach was used for the study. Data were collected from May to July, 2019 using open-ended questions during in-depth interviews. Participants were nurses working in long-term care hospitals and had reported experiences of moral distress. Nine nurses participated in this study.Results: Three themes emerged from the analysis using Colaizzi’s method: (1) confusion and distress about the meaning of care, (2) a feeling of helplessness caused by connivance, (3) enduring in the organization.Conclusion: Sufficient labor supply, environmental improvements, programs for improving interpersonal skills, education and counseling on end-of-life care, and recognition improvement about long-term care hospitals are suggested to reduce the moral distress of long-term care hospital nurses.
50
McDermott, Lisa. "A Qualitative Assessment of the Significance of Body Perception to Women’s Physical Activity Experiences: Revisiting Discussions of Physicalities." Sociology of Sport Journal 17, no. 4 (December 2000): 331–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.17.4.331.
Full textAbstract:
This paper builds upon an earlier exploratory discussion about the term physicality that called for conceptual clarity regarding our theoretical understanding and use of it within the context of women’s lives. In light of fieldwork conducted, physicality is suggested to be the complex interplay of body perception, agency, and self-perception. This article focuses on examining one feature of this construct by assessing the relevance of body perception to two groups of women’s experiences of their physicalities through two differently gendered activities: aerobics and wilderness canoe-tripping. Pivotal to this has been qualitatively understanding the lived-body as experienced and understood by the women. In-depth interviews and participant observation were used to explore the meaning and significance these women derived from experiencing their bodies/themselves through these activities. Of specific interest was understanding the effects of these experiences in terms of shaping their understandings of their physicalities particularly beyond that of appearance. Central to this has been apprehending the physically and socially empowering effects of these experiences, especially at the level of their identity. Through the data analysis, body perception was found to be relevant to the women’s physical activity involvement in two distinct ways: as a factor initiating activity involvement and as a perception emerging through the experience. In turn, these differing perceptions of the body were found to impact diversely upon their physicalities, either broadening them or contributing to alternative ways of understanding them.