A study on temporal change of pain and coping strategies after operation of breast cancer appeared in narratives,

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24593307
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical nursing
• Research Institution: Sapporo Medical University
• Principal Investigator: Shiromaru MIzue 札幌医科大学, 保健医療学部, 教授 (90300053)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ITO Takehiko 和光大学, 現代人間学部, 教授 (60176344) ; HONMA Mari 札幌医科大学, 医学部, 助教 (90423780) ; KODAIRA Tomoe 聖霊クリストファー大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (50259298) ; SATO Mikiyo 自治医科大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (00328163) ; MIZUTANI Satomi 順天堂大学, 医療看護学部, 助教 (40621727) ; Kadobayashi Michiko 日本女子大学, 人間社会学部, 研究員 (70424299) ; NAKADA Migiwa 札幌医科大学, 保健医療学部, 講師 (50241386)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 乳がん患者 / 全人的苦痛 / ベネフィットファインディング / 語り

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of present study was to find out the characteristics of pain as a whole person perspective as well as benefit finding of illness in the recovery process after the surgery. Data used for analysis were narratives of individual patients with breast cancer obtained from websites, DIPEx-Japan and J-POP voice, and autobiographical illness narrative books written by patients. A mixed methods research was conducted with qualitative and quantitative analysis including text mining method. Variety of physical pain and background of positive attitudes toward illness were found out. We have presented a series of papers on this study in domestic and international academic conferences. We are now preparing a scientific paper to be published in an academic journal.

Free Research Field

看護学