Can I read Experience of Uncertainty in Patients with Thalassemia Major: A Qualitative Study on EtoBox?

Experience of Uncertainty in Patients with Thalassemia Major: A Qualitative Study by Mehrnaz Ahmadi; Mahin Gheibizadeh; Maryam Rassouli; Abbas Ebadi; Marziyeh Asadizaker; Mojtaba Jahanifar is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Experience of Uncertainty in Patients with Thalassemia Major: A Qualitative Study about?

**Background:** Uncertainty leads to a stressful situation in patients with thalassemia major that can dramatically affect their psychosocial coping ability, treatment process and disease outcomes, and reduce patients' quality of life. As one of the important factors affecting the health of thalassemia patients, understanding the concept of uncertainty is of major importance to health care providers especially nurses as the first line of exposure to these patients. The present study aimed to explore the experiences of uncertainty in patients with thalassemia major. **Materials and Methods:** The present qualitative study was conducted through in-depth face-to-face semi-structured interviews held with 18 patients with major thalassemia selected through purposive sampling. Interviews continued until saturation of data. All interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed with conventional content analysis method of Landman and Graneheim using MAXQDA10 software. **Results:** Two main themes, including 'living in the shadow of anxiety' and 'coping with uncertainty' emerged from patients’ experiences of illness uncertainty of thalassemia. 'Living in the shadow of anxiety' included fou

Who reads Experience of Uncertainty in Patients with Thalassemia Major: A Qualitative Study?

Author

Mehrnaz Ahmadi; Mahin Gheibizadeh; Maryam Rassouli; Abbas Ebadi; Marziyeh Asadizaker; Mojtaba Jahanifar

Publisher

Knowledge E

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)