ABSTRACT In this descriptive.

ABSTRACT

In this descriptive, qualitative, phenomenological close attention the researchers explored the phenomena of the lived experience of having a urgency ulcer to determine the essential pile of the experience.The sample included 8 respondents: 4 individuals who generally had a pressure ulcer and 4 who previously had a compressing ulcer that had healed. Four respondent also had a spinal cord injury and 5 had surgical flap reconstruction. Respondent were asked to throw back and reply to the following statements: "Please describe your experience of having a squeezing ulcer.Share all the thoughts, perceptions, and feelings you can recall until you have no more to say about this experience." From verbatim transcriptions of interviews, 7 themes evolv with related subthemes. The themes that emerg were (1) perceived etiology of the press ulcer; (2) life impact and changes; (3) psychospiritual impact; (4) greatest painfulness associated with the hurry ulcer; (5) need for knowledge and understanding; (6) ne for and import of numerous, stressful treatments; and (7) the grieving proces In this paper, the essential nature of the experience of living with a compressing ulcer is presented. Pressure gatherings had a profound impact relating to the subjects' lives, including physical, social, and financial status; change of carcass image; and/or loss of independence and control.Those with a Stage IV urgency ulcer and flap repair and/or those with a spinal cord injury experienced the grieving proces in a certain form. Although the experience of having a compressing ulcer has similarities for each individual, each experiences it in a unique manner. Patients with a urgency ulcer with or without a spinal cord injury have significant emergencys in learning to cope and live with their condition.

ADV SKIN hurt CARE 2000;13:225-35.

Pressure gatherings (PUs) are a significant health riddle with at least 1.7 million the community developing them annually at a charge of $2.2 to $3.6 billion.1-2 richnesss are far greater than monetary; human suffering, pain, disfigurement, los of productive time, and visible form [i]or[/i] frame image changes are all potential ends of a PU. In previous studies, PU signs and symptoms have been identified by the agency of quantitative research, as have PU prevalence and incidence.2-5 To date, however, the phenomenological impact of a PU has not been researched.

Health care professionals and patients may make assumptions about what it must be like to experience a PU Baharestani6 studied the lived experience of wives caring for their frail, somewhat old husbands with PUs. However, no systematic previous research in succession the experience of living with a PU was identified in an extensive literature search. The limits lived experience, phenomenology, phenomenological research, qualitative research, urgency ulcer lived experience, chronic illness qualitative research, chronic illness phenomenological research, and chronic illness lived experience were searched. Understanding the phenomena of living with a PU is crucial to providing and planning care for the PU patient and to enhancing the overall quality of life for these individuals. The meaning of the phenomenological study at handed in this paper was to describe, understand, and give meaning to the experience of living with a PU

A lived experience encompasses meaning derived from being in the world. It is essential to discover this meaning to provide quality, individualized care. This studious mood sought to identify themes related to the experience of having a PU sum of two units research questions guided this inquiry: (1) What is the lived experience of having a PU? (2) What meanings) do race with a PU give to this experience?

Method

Design

Spiegelberg's7 phenomenological methodology was used in this thought in an attempt to interpret or define experiences that may not be immediately understandable. Because fosters and other health care professionals are drawn into a patient's life experiences, the phenomenological approach is appropriate to investigating the holistic, conscious, lived experience of having a PU7 According to Sandelowski,8 qualitative analysis is obliged to make faculty of perception of individual cases in order to propel to cross-case comparisons that enable aggregations of data from, and faithful to, individual cases.

Sample

Participants were recruited at the local medical center and via referrals from other respondent and/or health care providers. Approval for review of human make subordinates was obtained from the University of North Dakota Institutional Review Board. Potential make subordinates signed written consent forms that indicated they wished to be contacted according to a researcher and to participate in the subject of attention An unstructured interview was held with controls who met the study criteria. A nonprobability, purposive sample of an approximately equal number of adults who had an existing PU and who had a healed PU were chosen The researchers sought to include respondent who give an account ofed Stages II through IV of PUs, including more [i]or[/i] less with surgical flap reconstruction. Respondent were also excellented based on their ability to articulate the experience of having a PU All interviews were waysed in a private setting chosen by means of the respondent, and the interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. Additionally, the researchers maintained field notes to include ideas, feelings, or replys that emerged during data collection to clarify each interview experience.