Paper: Using Parse's Nursing Research Methodology to Explore the Universal Lived Experience of Family Resilience to Family Caregivers Who Cared for a Relative with Spinal Cord Injury (19th International Nursing Research Congress Focusing on Evidence-Based Practice)

Tuesday, 8 July 2008: 8:30 AM

Hsiao-Yu Chen, PhD, RN , Department of Eldercare, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

Shu-Huan Lin, MSc, RN , Institute of Nursing, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

Learning Objective 1: Learn about Parse's Human Becoming Theory and Parse's Nursing Research methodology

Learning Objective 2: know about the family' s lived experience of family resilience to family caregivers who cared for a relative with spinal cord injury

Spinal cord injury is one of the most disastrous injuries a person may experience. Although one family member experiences the injury, the entire family is affected. The purpose of this study is to explore the universal lived experience of family resilience to family caregivers who cared for a relative with spinal cord injury using Parse's Research Methodology. Data were collected from July/2006 to Jan. /2007 through tape-recorded dialogical engagement and then analyzed by extraction-synthesis and heuristic interpretation. Participants were 7 clients with family caregiver who cared for a relative with spinal cord injury. The findings show that the universal lived experience of family resilience to family caregivers who cared for a relative with spinal cord injury is to sacrifice wholeheartedly for fortifying the sense of being in an adversity with triumph amid the swinging between restraint and upturn; constructing a reachable dream and hope to create the oncoming. The findings are discussed in relation to human becoming, related literature and future research.

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