The lived experience of having a neobladder

TY - JOUR

T1 - The lived experience of having a neobladder

AU - Beitz, Janice M.

AU - Zuzelo, Patti Rager

PY - 2003/4

Y1 - 2003/4

N2 - The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to describe the lived experience of people who had a neobladder constructed. Men and women with direct and personal knowledge of the experience were interviewed. Analyses of transcribed verbatim narratives were conducted. Major and minor themes with clustered subthemes were identified. Selected themes included diagnosing cancer, detesting the idea of the bag, coping with stressful events, managing tubes and drains, responding to incontinence, keeping the neobladder healthy, and seeing cancer as a lifelong threat.

AB - The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to describe the lived experience of people who had a neobladder constructed. Men and women with direct and personal knowledge of the experience were interviewed. Analyses of transcribed verbatim narratives were conducted. Major and minor themes with clustered subthemes were identified. Selected themes included diagnosing cancer, detesting the idea of the bag, coping with stressful events, managing tubes and drains, responding to incontinence, keeping the neobladder healthy, and seeing cancer as a lifelong threat.

KW - Bladder cancer

KW - Lived experience

KW - Neobladder

KW - Phenomenology

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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0193945902250417

DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/0193945902250417

M3 - Review article

C2 - 12705113

SN - 0193-9459

VL - 25

SP - 294

EP - 316

JO - Western Journal of Nursing Research

JF - Western Journal of Nursing Research

IS - 3

ER -