The Meaning of Healing to Adult Patients with Advanced Cancer
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Recruitment and Data Collection
2.2. Data Management and Analysis
3. Results
Socio-Demographic Characteristics
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | N (%)/Median and Range |
---|---|
Age in years | Median 56; Range (21–86) |
Interview setting | |
Home | 05 (14.3%) |
Health facility | 25 (71.4%) |
Community outreach | 05 (14.3%) |
Sex | |
Male | 18 (51.4%) |
Female | 17 (48.6%) |
Marital status | |
Married | 12 (34.3%) |
Widowed | 11 (31.4%) |
Separated/divorced | 7 (20%) |
Single | 5 (14.3%) |
Type of residence | |
Rural | 23 (65.7%) |
Urban | 12 (34.3%) |
Religious affiliation | |
Catholic | 14 (40.0%) |
Anglican | 12 (34.3%) |
Born-again | 04 (11.4%) |
Muslim | 04 (11.4%) |
Seventh day | 01 (2.9%) |
Highest level of education | |
Primary | 18 (51.4%) |
Secondary | 13 (37.1%) |
Degree | 04 (11.4%) |
Type of cancer | |
Cervix | 10 (28.6%) |
Prostate | 10 (28.6%) |
Breast | 06 (17.1%) |
Kaposi’s sarcoma | 03 (8.6%) |
Myeloma | 02 (5.7%) |
Leukemia | 02 (5.7%) |
Head and neck | 01 (2.8%) |
Patient ID | Quote | Spiritual | Psychological | Social | Physical |
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UG-30-2021 | Accept God, surrender your life to God. Trust him completely, accept his will. | Acceptance and surrender | |||
UG-07-2020 | There is when your sickness cannot be cured but your heart accepts it. | Acceptance and surrender | |||
UG-14-2021 | There is healing when the disease affecting you is cured say you get cough, malaria and you treat; There is when you have a condition that will not heal. So, then that is eternity. | Acceptance and surrender | Recovering from sickness or disease | ||
UG-21-2021 | Someone to heal you first accept your situation and acceptance helps one to heal. | Acceptance and surrender | |||
UG-28-2021 | I have accepted my condition whether I will cure or not, I live with it. | Acceptance and surrender | |||
UG-34-2021 | Accept God. Surrender your life to God. Trust him completely. Accept his will; My friends have been valuable they have taught me much about threats to life, seeking care and accepting things you cannot do. Relating to friends have been very valuable to me. So, I am not alone. | Acceptance and surrender | Social relations | ||
UG-02-2021 | Do not go to hell, have God’s blessings to feel peace and to heal. God can take away cancer | Peace | |||
UG-01-2020 | It means having peace. | Peace | |||
UG-33-2021 | Have God’s blessing to feel peace and to heal. God can take away the cancer. | Peace | |||
UG-06-2020 | It means having hope. | Hope | |||
UG-12-2021 | Healing means you have hope to lead your life to the future | Hope | |||
UG-13-2021 | My healing will happen, but I cannot take back this thing. I hope to get healed but the disability on my body will remain. | Hope | |||
UG-05-2020 | Spiritual healing is very good and that is coming to God and believing God is in control of everything instead of wandering. It would be good for everyone to come to God for spiritual healing. | Faith | |||
UG-11-2020 | believing God is going to do great things I am not the way I was. | Faith | |||
UG-15-2021 | Healing is when I am cured of this condition. Others may be critically sick and pray that God takes them, and they call that healing. In my belief, I ask God to heal me of this sickness. | Faith | Recovering from sickness or disease | ||
UG-25-2021 | It is about believing that a person can get healed. | Faith | |||
UG-07-2021 | It means change of illness status, believe in that healing to know that all will be well even when death is imminent. | Faith | |||
UG-08-2020 | It means I am cured from the sickness; it no longer affects me. | Recovering from sickness or disease | |||
UG-32-2021 | It means death | Transcend | |||
UG-35-2021 | Healing to me means you have been having a problem affecting you which you have to overcome in one way or the other; You may have the means to do so, you may not have the means to do so. If achieved, it should be able to solve that difficulty which you have say some condition of health, some difficulty in life, some challenges which are about to demolish your life, you need something to help you out of it. | Transcend | |||
UG-09-2020 | Healing from sickness means happiness. | Positive emotions-Happiness | |||
UG-16-2021; | It means being in good health like others and be able to work. When you are well, you enjoy your life. | Positive emotions–wellness and enjoy life | work | ||
UG-18-2021; | Healing means to recover from whatever illness or distress that one may be experiencing. | Recovering from sickness or disease | |||
UG-22-2021 | It means coming out of a problem. | Recovering from a problem | Recovering from a problem | Recovering from sickness or disease | |
UG-23-2021 | Healing is being well in my life. | Wellness | |||
UG-26-2021 | It means getting cured of a sickness. | Recovering from sickness or disease | |||
UG-27-2021; | Healing for me it means recovering from sickness or a problem or whatever challenge you have. | Recovering from a problem | Recovering from a problem | Recovering from sickness or disease | |
UG-29-2021 | It means getting totally cured of the disease. | Recovering from sickness or disease | |||
UG-02-2020 | To be free from all pains. | Freedom from suffering | |||
UG-03-2020 | To free of the problems of the world. | Freedom from suffering | |||
UG-09-2021 | Being free in life without anything bothering your life. | Freedom from suffering |
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Namisango, E.; Luyirika, E.B.K.; Matovu, L.; Berger, A. The Meaning of Healing to Adult Patients with Advanced Cancer. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 1474. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021474
Namisango E, Luyirika EBK, Matovu L, Berger A. The Meaning of Healing to Adult Patients with Advanced Cancer. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023; 20(2):1474. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021474
Chicago/Turabian StyleNamisango, Eve, Emmanuel B. K. Luyirika, Lawrence Matovu, and Ann Berger. 2023. "The Meaning of Healing to Adult Patients with Advanced Cancer" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 2: 1474. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021474