Searching a chance for the child to become: the experience of the father in the intensive care unit

Authors

  • Aspásia Basile Gesteira Souza Universidade Cidade de São Paulo
  • Margareth Angelo USP; EE; depto. de Enfermagem Materno-infantil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0080-62341999000300007

Keywords:

Intensive Care Units, pediatric, Father-child relations

Abstract

This study was intended to analyse the experience of the father who have a child in an Intensive Care Unit, by applyng the qualitative research under the phenomenologycal perspective of Martin Heidegger, it was to identify three themes which figured that experience:Transforming the fear into hope,Perceiving himself as the person who decides and Acting for his child benefit. These themes unveiled the phenomenon SEARCHING A CHANCE FOR THE CHILD TO BECOME, who reveals that submits his child to risks and to essential treatments while continuously unchanging overcomes his own feelings in order to offer to his child an opportunity of full living.

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Published

1999-09-01

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 3 (1999)

Section

Original Articles

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Souza, A. B. G., & Angelo, M. (1999). Searching a chance for the child to become: the experience of the father in the intensive care unit. Revista Da Escola De Enfermagem Da USP, 33(3), 255-264. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0080-62341999000300007