Perceptions and Representations of Cancer Chemotherapy
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 75
- Primary Endpoint
- The semi-structured interview
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Qualitative study on data from interviews such patients, relatives and doctors involved in the implementation of cancer care. Framework type of method using grounded theory
Detailed Description
The word chemotherapy itself, because it belongs to the secular knowledge and therefore Doxa is a hard word, which stores what it is stable, common and therefore impersonal. It has the properties of a symbol, that is to say that joint several meanings, some of which are contradictory.
The objective of the research:
To determine the perceptions and representations of chemotherapy, its physical impacts, psychological and relational.
To qualitatively compare the performances of chemotherapy as it has an end as scheduled for adjuvant chemotherapy, or endless precise as in the palliative chemotherapy
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Time Perspective
- Retrospective
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 100 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •30 major Patients with lung cancer requiring chemotherapy either as palliative or adjuvant as surgical treatment
- •30 significant others (relatives) major applicant lung cancer patients chemotherapy either palliation or as adjuvant to surgery
- •15 Doctors oncologists performing either chemotherapy as palliative or adjuvant as surgical treatment
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
The semi-structured interview
Time Frame: 1 day (day of inclusion)
The interview will be analyzed in a framework type of method (grounded theory) in accordance with the guidelines coreq.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported