PSYCHOSOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF LIFE AFTER DIAGNOSIS: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE EXPERIENCES OF BREAST CANCER PATIENTS Cover Image

ПСИХОСОЦИАЛНИ ИЗМЕРЕНИЯ НА ЖИВОТА СЛЕД ДИАГНОЗА: КОНТЕНТ АНАЛИЗ НА ПРЕЖИВЯВАНИЯТА НА ПАЦИЕНТИТЕ С РАК НА ГЪРДАТА
PSYCHOSOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF LIFE AFTER DIAGNOSIS: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE EXPERIENCES OF BREAST CANCER PATIENTS

Author(s): Maria Strateva, Diana Tsirkova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Educational Psychology, Social psychology and group interaction, Clinical psychology, Health and medicine and law, Family and social welfare
Published by: Бургаски свободен университет
Keywords: oncodiagnosis; perceptions of life; personal experience from the lived diagnosis

Summary/Abstract: The text presents part of a study in which 63 women with an oncodiagnosis participated. They respond in free text to six questions, describing their subjective experiences related to learning the diagnosis, family relationships, life plans, and change in perception of life events. The interview overcomes the limitations of standardized tests and enables each woman to share from а first person their anxieties, problems and ways of coping with the disease Their experiences are summarized and analyzed with theoretical references to Elisabeth Kübler Ross, Viktor Frankl, Zornitsa Ganeva.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 103-111
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bulgarian
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