Experiences of Returning to School during Chemotherapy of Adolescents with Cancer
Keywords:
Getting back to school, Experience, Adolescent patients with cancerAbstract
Husserlian Phenomenology was applied as the principle for this qualitative research. The purpose of this study was to describe the illness experience of adolescent patients with cancer. The key informants were adolescent cancer patients aged 12-18 years who were undergoing chemotherapy at five tertiary hospitals according to the inclusion criteria. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with nine key informants and analyzed using Colaizzi’s method until the data was saturated.
The results presented nine key informants, aged 12-16 years, including 8 patients with acute leukemia, and 1 lymphoma patient. These informants defined the experience of returning to school during chemotherapy into five themes; 1) getting back to school for myself, 2) getting back to school, but not the same, 3) getting help from the people around me, 4) being encouraged to stay, and 5) being happy about going back to school.
The results of this research could enhance a better understanding of the experience of adolescents with cancer returning to school during chemotherapy, and the research data can be used as fundamental data to support adolescents with cancer, who are ready, determined, and want to return to school, to be successful. Future research is recom- mended on related topics.
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