Análisis de la transición de los postcuidadores familiares desde la teoría de las transiciones de Meleis: una aproximación cualitativa

  1. Mora-López, Gerard 1
  2. Berbis-Morelló, Carmen 1
  3. Montesó-Curto, Pilar 1
  4. Martinez-Segura, Estrella 1
  5. Font-Jimenez, Isabel 1
  6. Ferré-Grau, Carme 1
  1. 1 Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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    Universitat Rovira i Virgili

    Tarragona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/00g5sqv46

Journal:
Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental

ISSN: 1647-2160,  1647-2160

Year of publication: 2018

Type: Article

DOI: 10.19131/RPESM.0200 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

More publications in: Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Family caregivers build their lives based on theirrelative. When he dies, they must rebuild their lives.AIM: To understand the experience of post-caregivers family in thereconstruction of their daily lives from the theory of Afaf Meleis.METHODS: A qualitative study based on grounded theory. Temethod of data collection was through in-depth interviews with 14family post-caregivers during the period between June 2014 and December 2015, the region of Catalonia (Spain).RESULTS: When analyzing interview 3 categories emerged: remembering the life of the caregiver, the transition from post-care and newlife as a post-caregiver. To deepen the analysis of discourses it wasobserved that the elements that structured the transition of postcaregivers family coincided with the theoretical basis of the Teoryof Transitions Meleis. An analysis of all the elements that make thetransition from post-care to the Transitions theory is presented.CONCLUSION: Transitions theory has a body of knowledge thatmakes us understandable situations experienced by post-caregiversand allows us to understand the diversity of their experiences.

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