Process of adaptation for advanced cancer patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy

• Project/Area Number: 21792207
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Clinical nursing
• Research Institution: Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
• Principal Investigator: SATO Naomi 浜松医科大学, 医学部, 准教授 (10293630)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2011
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
• Budget Amount: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
• Keywords: 外来化学療法 / 進行がん患者 / 適応 / 質的研究 / 看護学 / 修正版グラウンデッド・セオリー・アプローチ / グラウンデッド・セオリー・アプローチ

Research Abstract

Subjects felt that it was no concern of their own about their diagnosis of cancer or recurrence. They had no choice but to start receiving chemotherapy. Their hope to live kept going or even grew up. The feeling that they can manage their daily life was important, but sometimes they wavered on their therapy-centered life. They tried to keep usual daily life to settle that matter.