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  • Nursing
  • Qualitative Research
  • Healthcare Ethics

Background:

  • Honesty and truth-telling are core values in healthcare.
  • Understanding the lived experience of difficulty in truth-telling is crucial for patient care and professional practice.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore and describe the structure of the lived experience of difficulty telling the truth among healthcare professionals.

Main Methods:

  • Phenomenological research using Parse's methodology.
  • In-depth interviews with 9 nurses and 1 physician.

Main Results:

  • The structure of difficulty telling the truth involves 'uncomfortable dialogues with knowing silences' and 'anguishing deliberations anticipating potential adversity'.
  • Intentional withholding of truth, in contrast, leads to 'calm acquiescence'.

Conclusions:

  • The findings illuminate the complex emotional and cognitive processes involved when healthcare professionals struggle with truth-telling.
  • Understanding this structure can inform ethical practice and support for clinicians facing such dilemmas.
  • The study contributes to the human-becoming school of thought and existing literature on truth-telling in healthcare.