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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to understand the nature of experience of sex life belonged to women with breast cancer.
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to explain that nurses need to concern with sexual experience and problem solving strategy of women with breast cancer.
Purpose: The aims of this study were to investigate the nature of the experience inherent in the sex life of female breast cancer patients and understand the meaning behind it. Method: The participants were 10 female breast cancer patients who were married. Data were collected from March 2010 to September 2010. This qualitative research adopted van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenology as a research method. Results: There were 4 essential topics in the participants' experience of sex life. 'Sex life alert' was a result of negative sexual changes that had never experienced before diagnosis with breast cancer. This topic consisted of themes such as the loss of sexual pleasure, evasion of sex life, and depression caused by loss of feminity. 'Precarious situation of a potential divorce' was an experience of deteriorated sex life by being unable to overcome 'sex life alert'. This topic consisted of shunning the husband by deeming him as a patient, sexual humiliation caused by the husband, and extreme malice between the couple. 'Maturity through pleasure after pain' was an experience of discovering a solution to overcome the 'sex-life alert'. This topic consisted of accepting breast cancer, discovery of alternatives to overcome difficulties with sex life, stronger marriage due to support and consideration, and discovery of the role as an assistant to sex life. 'Leaving it unsettled', was an experience of not having any questions answered due to the lack of appropriate aid after diagnosed with breast cancer, thus ignoring the challenges faced. This topic consisted of lack of sexual knowledge regarding cure for breast cancer and demand for education, sexual difficulties with solutions yet to be discovered. Conclusion: This study helps to construct nursing knowledge by discovering the meanings of female breast cancer patients’ sex life which nurses usually hesitated to deal with.
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