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D Flaming

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PubMed1995

Patient suffering: a taxonomy from the nurse's perspective.

Using the ethnoscientific method, a taxonomy depicting types of suffering experienced by patients was developed. Nurses were asked to describe patients' suffering and, from this data, the differing types were identified. The four major domains identified were 'to bear it', 'to stay in control', 'to protect', and 'to strengthen'. Under these broad domains, nurses identified 24 different types of suffering, such as peaceful, meaningful, self-absorbed, silent, stoic, flaunted, martyr-like, 'in limbo', and hopeless. Implications for nurses are that: (a) patients expend much energy in their suffering and this should be considered when giving care, (b) nurses' personal evaluation of patient suffering should not preclude individualized care, (c) patients need personal space periodically, (d) some patients do not want their suffering alleviated, and (e) hidden reasons for patient behaviour are likely to exist.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
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Minimizing embarrassment: boys' experiences of pubertal changes.

As very little is known about boys' subjective and emotional experiences when going through puberty, the qualitative research method of grounded theory was used in this study to address the question: "What is the experience of the physical maturational changes in male adolescents?" A Basic Social Psychological Process emerged, Minimizing Embarrassment, with four stages: waiting for the change, noticing the change, dealing with the change, and feeling comfortable with the change. Boys developed expectations from listening to others, by looking at older males, and by wondering and imagining what the changes would eventually be like for them. After developing these expectations, they compared their physical changes to others and to their own expectations. If the boys felt they were different from their peers, they worried about this difference. They used strategies such as avoiding, pretending, and joking to avoid embarrassment or to deal with embarrassing situations. If the boys felt they were "normal," they accepted the fact that they were maturing properly.

Adaptation, Psychological↗