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Modeling Colitis-Associated Cancer with Azoxymethane (AOM) and Dextran Sulfate Sodium (DSS)
Published on: September 11, 2012
[Ostomized person's experience with cancer: an analysis based on the chronic disease model according to Morse and
Vilma Madalosso Petuco1, Cleide Lavieri Martins
1Doutora em Saúde Pública, Docente do Curso de Enfermagem da Universidade de Passo Fundo, RS.
Abstract:
The study aimed at understanding the meaning of the disease experience for the ostomized people with cancer and the changes on their identity. With a qualitative approach based on the methodological referential of the oral history of life, we have accompanied the subjects during one year, from the moment of hospitalization. During that period, a series of five interviews were performed with each subject. The description and analysis of the evolution were based on the Model of Constellation of the Disease proposed by Morse and Johnson. The analysis showed that, after the deep impact caused by the disease and the permanent ostomy, the subjects begin a new process of realizing their identities, which includes a rediscovery of their place in life.
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