Using the literary folkloristic method to understand why people refuse medical interventions.

CONCLUSION: The literary folkloristic method gave voice to those who might otherwise have been silenced by the healthcare system.
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Nurses and nurse researchers can influence policy and practice by offering alternative understandings of poorly understood phenomena, such as patients refusing medical interventions. It is important healthcare providers approach this from the viewpoints of those directly involved, since strategies to support patients may be ineffective without such understanding.
PMID: 31486322 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Nurse Researcher - September 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Molloy D, Hendricks J Tags: Nurse Res Source Type: research