[Perceptions of family members of patients with cancer on musical encounters during the antineoplastic treatment.]

[Perceptions of family members of patients with cancer on musical encounters during the antineoplastic treatment.]
Rev Bras Enferm. 2014 Jun;67(3):408-414
Authors: Silva VA, Marcon SS, Sales CA
Abstract
Current research is a qualitative phenomenological analysis, structured on Heidegger's existential analysis, whose aim was the perception of cancer patients' relatives who live with subjects with cancer and with anticancer treatment, about the musical encounters. Five subjects living at the clinic run by the Maringá Female Network against Cancer participated at eight musical encounters during January and February 2011. The meeting mediated by the music can provide the relatives with a moment of existential introspection which lead them to a transcendental experience in coping with their existential condition. It inspired the expression of subjectivity and the revealing of their existential / spiritual needs. Within the context of cancer palliative care, the encounters may broaden the integration and humanization possibilities of nursing care to the family, providing comfort, reflection and motivation in the wake of emergent adversities within the clinic's temporal term.
PMID: 25054703 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem - June 1, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Silva VA, Marcon SS, Sales CA Tags: Rev Bras Enferm Source Type: research