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[Relationship between spirituality and cancer: patient's perspective]
Giselle Patrícia Guerrero1, Márcia Maria Fontão Zago, Namie Okino Sawada
1Departamento de Enfermagem Geral, Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, SP. giguerrero@usp.br
Objective:
to understand the relationship between spirituality and cancer under cancer patients' perspective.
Method:
qualitative study, with the participating of fourteen cancer patients under chemotherapy treatment and analyzed according to inductive thematic content analysis.
Results:
reports were organized into three categories: cancer diagnosis, faith for coping to the cancer, the search for cancer cure. It was understood that cancer patients search spirituality as a way to cope with the disease, aiming to minimize their suffering or obtaining a higher hope of cure with treatment. FINAL CONSIDERATION: the central theme "cancer frightens and spirituality renews" shows the importance of recognizing spirituality as a coping strategy in planning care to cancer patients.
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