從文化面走入癌症兒童父母的疾病思維

Interpretation of Illness on Parents of Children with Cancer from Cultural Perspective

吳麗敏(Li-Min Wu) ； 金繼春(Chi-Chun Chin)

《腫瘤護理雜誌》 7卷1期 (2007/06) Pp. 21-29

https://doi.org/10.6880/TJON.200706_7(1).03

摘要

文化照護的目的是希望運用文化知識背景架構來幫助護理進行決策分析，以期達到維護個案健康與安適之最終目的，護理人員必須敏感於罹患癌症的兒童其父母置身於文化的脈絡，才能洞悉文化對於父母的影響。台灣人承襲傳統東方文化，重視「命」與「運」的哲學思維，常以混合儒道佛的信仰價值觀，看待疾病與醫療結果，以及思考健康決策，因此本文從東西交會的醫療與健康文化切入，分析癌症兒童的父母面對疾病的思維，最後藉由護理實務的省思來引導和論述今後護理應該努力的方向。

關鍵字

文化照護 ； 癌症兒童的父母

並列摘要

Cultural care is to apply cultural knowledge and background in making nursing care decision that maintains patients' health and wellbeing. In order to understand the influence of culture on parents of children with cancer, nursing staffs are required sensitive to the cultural context of the parents. Taiwanese inherit the Eastern culture; most of them understand illness and medical outcome, and make health decision highly based on the philosophy of ”Ming (Life)” and ”Yun (Luck)”, and the religious values of ”Ru (Confucianism), Dao (Taoism) and/or Fo (Buddhism)”. This article is to analyze the interpretation of illness on parents of children with cancer getting from the Eastern and the Western medical context and cultural perspective in order to make further reflection of nursing practice and to determine the future improvement of nursing care.

並列關鍵字

cultural care ； parents of children with cancer