Experience of spirituality in cancer patients undergoing outpatient chemotherapy
Vivencia de la espiritualidad en el paciente con cáncer en quimioterapia ambulatoria
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Objective: To analyze the experience of spirituality in cancer patients undergoing treatment with ambulatory chemotherapy. Materials and methods: A qualitative research with a historical hermeneutic approach. Six people with a diagnosis of cancer who were undergoing outpatient chemotherapy treatment in three health care centers in the city of Medellin, Colombia between July 2020 and July 2021 participated. The information was collected through semi-structured interviews. The analysis process was carried out using Strauss and Corbin's grounded theory techniques: microanalysis, open coding, axial coding, and constant comparison. Results: The way cancer patients undergoing outpatient chemotherapy treatment experience spirituality is represented through the following categories: "Emotions experienced during treatment as an impetus to move forward", "Support networks, a source of strength and hope", "Cancer, a divine test between limitations and learning", "Empathy of health personnel, a mechanism to coping with the disease and generate well-being", and "Spirituality, a force that changes the perspective of the disease". Conclusions: Despite the negative connotation of the diagnosis of cancer, the spiritual dimension in the cancer patient undergoing outpatient chemotherapy treatment contributes to the person seeing the disease from a positive perspective, increases faith and hope to continue fighting, gives a sense that everything has been worthwhile, allows seeing beyond and provides peace of mind to face the adversities caused by cancer.
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