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유승연 ( Yoo Seung-Yeon ) - 연세대학교 간호대학
이원희 ( Lee Won-Hee ) - 연세대학교 간호대학
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of young adults with hypertension, using phenomenology in order to describe the essence of such experiences and to understand them from the patients’ point of view.
Methods: Participants in this study were 4 hypertension patients with ages ranging from 20 to 35 years old, living in Seoul city. Data were collected from in-depth interviews done from October to November in 2005. Colazzi method(1978) was used to analyze the data.
Results: The 12 themes were extracted in this study ; ‘Discovery by accident’, ‘Denial of the diagnosis’, ‘A disease unworthy of the young men’, ‘Guilty feeling toward their parents’, ‘Fear of death’, ‘Unconvinced reason’, ‘Worry about the future’, ‘Attribute all symptoms to the disease’, ‘Will of not life-long medication’, ‘Concern for fertility problem’, ‘Not convinced with current treatment method’, ‘Becoming unimportant’.
Conclusion: The results of this study show that the young adult with hypertension will be in a high risk group of non compliance, so helpful program for them should be developed and the nurses need to pay more attention to the psychosocial aspect of nursing.
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KeyWords
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성인, 고혈압, 질적 연구
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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