Traditional Chinese Medicine Seeking Behavior in Cancer Patients
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Justin, Kung-Yi Lin
Abstract
Objective As the high incident rate of cancer and prevalence of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) utilization in Taiwan, this study aimed to develop a conceptual framework of the TCM seeking behavior of Taiwanese adolescents with cancer.ethods Ten adolescents (four males and six females) with cancer at all stages of the illness were interviewed by snowball sampling. Data were collected through in-depth interview by semi-structure guideline and observations, medical chart reviews, and researcher’s reflexive journals. As the data were received and transcribed, editing and immersion/ crystallization were used to represent constructs of the adolescents with cancer. esults These multifaceted, naturalistic contextures were elicited by TCM out-patient department visiting in clinical status. Five distinct subcategories of the TCM seeking behavior reported by interviewees were emerged. The cancer impact included the mind-body impact after diagnosis, the adverse effect impact of treatment, family impact and work impact; the cancer uncertainty were fully showed out by the social-family-interpersonal relationship, the diagnosis and prognosis, the remedy self-efficacy, the patient– physician relationship between Chinese and western medicine, etiology and the gain of medical information; the TCM seeking motivation were extracted by constitution modulation, complementary of Chinese-Western medicine, side effect reduction, sequela improvement, immune system enhancement, and cancer treatment; the Chinese medicine inherent concepts merged by the TCM recuperate the constitution, temperately taking for long term, slow efficacy for a long time, cold -warm and TCM humanity; the TCM decision-making factors influenced by social relationship, medical effect, information obtains, economical consideration, geographical environment, and sequela; the experience transformation to utilize TCM were also presented.onclusions The Chinese medicine behavior seeking in cancer patients are demonstrated vividly by a succession of process of impact, uncertainty, motivation, the inherent concept, decision making of traditional Chinese medicine and transformation on physical and psychological, cognitive, social and future orientation aspects.
Subjects
traditional Chinese medicine
cancer
qualitative research
medical seeking behavior
SDGs
Type
thesis
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