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The experience of patients with cancer on narrative practice: A systematic review and meta‐synthesis

BACKGROUND: In recent years, narrative practice has been applied in clinical settings to address the relational and psychological concerns that occur in tandem with physical illness. It is an emerging strategy to treat patients as individuals with their own stories, rather than purely based on sympt...

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Autores principales: Yang, Yan, Xu, Jiehui, Hu, Yihui, Hu, Jiale, Jiang, Anli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7104641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31944492
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.13003
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author Yang, Yan
Xu, Jiehui
Hu, Yihui
Hu, Jiale
Jiang, Anli
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Hu, Yihui
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Jiang, Anli
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description BACKGROUND: In recent years, narrative practice has been applied in clinical settings to address the relational and psychological concerns that occur in tandem with physical illness. It is an emerging strategy to treat patients as individuals with their own stories, rather than purely based on symptoms. OBJECTIVE: To synthesize the experience of patients with cancer using narrative practice. METHODS: Following a systematic search strategy, a literature search was conducted to identify qualitative studies on the experience of patients with cancer using narrative practice. Nine databases were searched up to April 2018, which included six English databases and three Chinese databases. A meta‐synthesis was conducted to synthesize the findings of the included studies. MAIN RESULTS: Seven studies out of 2894 studies were included in this review. Patients with cancer had different preferences on narrative practices. In terms of the impacts of narrative practice on patients with cancer, six themes were identified, which included ‘(a) reducing the gap between patients and clinicians; (b) healing effect; (c) social connection; (d) facilitating self‐reflection, self‐recognition and self‐realization; (e) risk of negative impacts; and (f) Patients' preference on different approaches of narrative practice’. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with cancer experienced positive effects regarding narrative practice. Although some patients may experience negative effects, narrative practice is a humanized way to provide care for patients with cancer in the clinical settings.
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spelling pubmed-71046412020-04-01 The experience of patients with cancer on narrative practice: A systematic review and meta‐synthesis Yang, Yan Xu, Jiehui Hu, Yihui Hu, Jiale Jiang, Anli Health Expect Original Research Papers BACKGROUND: In recent years, narrative practice has been applied in clinical settings to address the relational and psychological concerns that occur in tandem with physical illness. It is an emerging strategy to treat patients as individuals with their own stories, rather than purely based on symptoms. OBJECTIVE: To synthesize the experience of patients with cancer using narrative practice. METHODS: Following a systematic search strategy, a literature search was conducted to identify qualitative studies on the experience of patients with cancer using narrative practice. Nine databases were searched up to April 2018, which included six English databases and three Chinese databases. A meta‐synthesis was conducted to synthesize the findings of the included studies. MAIN RESULTS: Seven studies out of 2894 studies were included in this review. Patients with cancer had different preferences on narrative practices. In terms of the impacts of narrative practice on patients with cancer, six themes were identified, which included ‘(a) reducing the gap between patients and clinicians; (b) healing effect; (c) social connection; (d) facilitating self‐reflection, self‐recognition and self‐realization; (e) risk of negative impacts; and (f) Patients' preference on different approaches of narrative practice’. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with cancer experienced positive effects regarding narrative practice. Although some patients may experience negative effects, narrative practice is a humanized way to provide care for patients with cancer in the clinical settings. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-01-16 2020-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7104641/ /pubmed/31944492 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.13003 Text en © 2019 The Authors Health Expectations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7104641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31944492
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.13003
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