Yang-Sook Yoo; Eun-Ju Lee; Ok-Hee Cho

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Life Experience of Patients suffering from Crohn's Disease: Yang-Sook Yoo, Eun-Ju Lee, Ok-Hee Cho; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2013;43(3):409-419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2013.43.3.409
Published online: June 28, 2013

¹College of Nursing, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

²Graduate School, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

³College of Nursing, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Cho, Ok-Hee. College of Nursing, Jeju National University, 102 Jejudaehakno, Jeju-si, Jeju Special Self-Governing Peovince 690-756, Korea. Tel: 82-64-754-3887, Fax: 82-64-702-2686, ohcho@jejunu.ac.kr

• Received: April 12, 2012 • Accepted: April 19, 2013

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Abstract

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to describe and explore the experience process of life of patients with Crohn's disease.
Methods
Using a grounded theory methodology, 24 interviews were performed with 7 men and 5 women, 17-47 years of age, suffering from Crohn's disease.
Results
'Tuning of two conflicting lives' was identified as the core category, and 5 subcategories were identified and they were integrated into the core category. The identified outcomes were 'Living a withdrawn life', 'coping flexibly', 'drifting with tangled emotions' and 'maintaining long-term remission'.
Conclusion
When caring for these patients, it is important to identify needs, allow patients to express what they want at that moment and support them in maintaining a daily life that can be perceived as normal.
Keywords: Crohn's disease; Life change events; Qualitative research

This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (No.: 20110012271).

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Process of 'tuning of two conflicting lives'.

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