Faculty of Health and Society, Department of Care Science, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden.
Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2020 Dec;15(1):1734166. doi: 10.1080/17482631.2020.1734166.
: Spouses are in a vulnerable situation when caring for a frail partner late in life. Exploring their existential loneliness can be a way to understand more about their existential needs.: A hermeneutic approach was used. Multistage focus group interviews were conducted with two groups consisting of five spouses, respectively, who met three times each. To work with the text, an approach was adapted where quotations are converted into poems in a linguistic manner.: Existential loneliness can be understood as the following: 1) being in a transition from to merely , 2) being forced to make decisions and feeling excluded, 3) navigating in an unfamiliar situation and questioning oneself, and 4) longing for togetherness but lacking the energy to encounter other people. The main interpretation is that existential loneliness emerges when one is in moments of inner struggle, when one is forced to make impossible choices, when one is approaching and is in limit situations, and when one is experiencing the endless loss of the other.: For health care professionals to achieve a holistic picture, person-centeredness can be a way to make the spouses' existential needs visible and to provide support based on their needs.
当配偶在生命晚期照顾虚弱的伴侣时，他们处于脆弱的境地。探索他们的存在孤独感可以帮助我们更好地理解他们的存在需求。本研究采用解释学方法，对两组各由五名配偶组成的参与者进行了多阶段焦点小组访谈，每组分别进行了三次访谈。为了处理文本，我们采用了一种方法，即将引语以语言的方式转化为诗歌。存在孤独感可以理解为以下几个方面：1）从到仅仅是；2）被迫做出决定并感到被排斥；3）在陌生的环境中导航并自我质疑；4）渴望团聚但缺乏与他人相遇的精力。主要的解释是，当一个人处于内心挣扎的时刻、被迫做出不可能的选择、接近和处于极限情况、以及经历无尽的失去对方时，存在孤独感就会出现。为了实现整体护理，以人为本可以使配偶的存在需求变得明显，并根据他们的需求提供支持。
