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This version was published on July 1, 2008
Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, Vol. 25, No. 4, 185-192 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1043454208319186

Phenomenology in Pediatric Cancer Nursing Research

Dianne Fochtman, RN, MN, CPNP, CPON

Kapiolani Medical Center for Women, School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, in Honolulu, Hawaii, diannef{at}kapiolani.org

What does it mean to have cancer as a child or adolescent? To understand this, researchers must study the illness from the child's point of view and listen to these children's descriptions of their "lived world." Phenomenology is a qualitative research methodology that can be used to discover and interpret meaning. To use phenomenology congruently, the philosophical background must be understood as well as the adaptation of the philosophical basis to research in the caring sciences. Only when clinicians truly understand the meaning of this illness to the child can they design nursing interventions to ease suffering and increase quality of life in children and adolescents with cancer.

Key Words: Key words: phenomenology • hermeneutics • children and adolescents with cancer • qualitative methodology • understanding the meaning


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