Upplevelser av ätandet hos personer med svår hjärtsvikt 2001 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor)Student thesis

Abstract [sv]

The aim of this study was to describe the eating experience in individuals with serve heart failure. The disease is common, especially in high age. Both the disease and the treatment can cause a variety of symptoms, which in turn can affects the eating. Data was collected through interviews with seven individuals with severe heart failure. The analysis was based on a phenomenological method from a caring perspective. In the result, it emerged that the individuals with severe heart failure experienced the eating as a transition, strain, mastering and motivation. These experienced were related and dependet on each other. The individuals with severe heart failure are seriously ill and experienced a transition as well as strain in connection to eating. The individuals also needed to master the difficulties related to eating and to have motivation to be able to live on and to regain the strength to forward life. The nursing care for these individuals should be based on knowledge of their own experience of eating.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages

2001.

Keywords [sv]

eating, Heart Failure, phenomenology

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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-9886Local ID: U4558OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-9886DiVA, id: diva2:364994

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Medicine

Note

Denna uppsats kan beställas från arkivet / This paper can be ordered from the archive. Kontakta / Contact: arkivet@hh.seAvailable from: 2010-11-09 Created: 2010-11-09Bibliographically approved

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