Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies, Department of Caring Sciences, Åbo Akademi University, Vaasa, Finland.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Caring and Ethics, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.
Scand J Caring Sci. 2021 Dec;35(4):1240-1249. doi: 10.1111/scs.12942. Epub 2020 Dec 10.
For about 40 years, Katie Eriksson developed the caritative caring theory at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. However, a description regarding the most substantial concepts and the relationships between these is lacking and thus needs to be explored.
The aim of the study was twofold: to explore and describe central concepts in the development of caritative caring theory from a postdoctoral perspective and to uncover and explore the relationships between the concepts.
The design of the study was qualitative with a mixed method approach. The material was collected from a postdoctoral group (n = 38) mainly through electronic questionnaires. The texts were interpreted through manifest and latent content analysis.
The analyses generated five main categories including subcategories. The main categories were 'Caring' 'Ethos', 'Suffering' 'Health' and 'The human being'. The relation between the main concepts compiled as 'A tentative synthesis of the main concepts and the relationships between them'.
This study contributes to an understanding of the most fundamental and valuable concepts in the development of caritative theory during its first 40 years according to postdoctoral researchers' perspectives. This study also displays that the concepts ethos and caring have the strongest relationship followed by that between caring and health, indicating the inner core of ethos and love within caring which bears the potential of enhancing the patient's well-being and health.
大约 40 年来，凯蒂·埃里克森（Katie Eriksson）一直在芬兰奥博学术大学发展关怀关爱理论。然而，对于该理论中最重要的概念及其相互关系，还缺乏描述，因此需要对其进行探索。
本研究旨在从博士后的角度探索和描述关怀关爱理论发展过程中的核心概念，并揭示和探讨这些概念之间的关系。
本研究设计为定性与混合方法相结合。研究材料主要通过电子问卷从一个博士后小组（n=38）中收集。通过明显和潜在的内容分析对文本进行解释。
分析产生了五个主要类别，包括子类别。这些主要类别分别是“关怀”“精神气质”“痛苦”“健康”和“人”。主要概念之间的关系被归纳为“主要概念及其关系的初步综合”。
本研究从博士后研究人员的角度，对关怀关爱理论发展的头 40 年中最基本和最有价值的概念有了更深入的理解。本研究还表明，精神气质和关怀这两个概念之间的关系最强，其次是关怀和健康之间的关系，这表明关怀中精神气质和爱的内在核心具有增强患者幸福感和健康的潜力。
