Purpose – To explore the importance of lived experiences, as complementary knowledge to that provided by the sciences, for policy and intervention on climate change.

Nurses and healthcare professionals may have difficulty adjusting to and comprehending their experiences when a patient’s life ends. This has the potential to interfere with patient care. Reflection on past events and actions enables critical discovery of strategies to benefit both nurses and patients. This qualitative phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of nurses caring for d...

Adolescents are in a transitional phase of life characterized by major physical, emotional, and psychological challenges. Living with ulcerative colitis is experienced as a reduction of their life quality. Initial treatment of ulcerative colitis is medical, but surgery may be necessary when medical treatment ceases to have an effect. No research-based studies of adolescents' experience of the h...

PURPOSE The goal of the study was to understand the experiences of life among nursing home residents. METHODS Qualitative study was conducted using Colaizzi's phenomenological method. The participants were 11 people aged 76-96 years in two nursing homes in Korea. RESULTS Nine themes were identified: giving up on one self, growing apart from familiar relationships, perceiving the monotony of...

There is burgeoning interest in the field of "Islamic" bioethics within public and professional circles, and both healthcare practitioners and academic scholars deploy their respective expertise in attempts to cohere a discipline of inquiry that addresses the needs of contemporary bioethics stakeholders while using resources from within the Islamic ethico-legal tradition. This manuscript serves...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the lived experiences of female victims of domestic violence who also identified themselves as victims of physical abuse as children. There have been numerous studies of identifying perpetrators of violence as having a history of experienced violence in the family of origin. However, few studies address the victims/survivors of domestic violence and ...

BACKGROUND Diabetes continuously disrupts a patient's well-being and quality of life. Successful self-care could potentially decrease overall costs and rates of mortality and morbidity. Patients' experiences could be used to elucidate what they believe about illness and its management. The overall aim of this study was to illuminate the meaning of self-care among diabetic patients in Southeast ...

The aim of this study was to explore the lived experience of the symptoms, health, and illness reported by patients recovering after pancreaticoduodenectomy ad modum Whipple due to pancreatic or periampullary cancer. Thirteen patients with pancreatic or periampullary cancer who underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy ad modum Whipple between 2006 and 2008 were interviewed during postoperative recover...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women. Women with breast cancer encounter many psychosocial stresses as well as physical problems. AIM   To capture the meaning of living with breast cancer from the unique perspective and through the lived experiences of Iranian women with breast cancer that were explained with their own words. METHODS A phenomenological appr...