Abstract
Research has shown that preoperative stress is associated with poorer health outcomes in adults and young children, but there is little in the literature about the stress experienced by adolescents. Clinical experience, however, has shown that adolescents behave differently throughout the perioperative experience than either adults or children. For example, common behaviors of adolescent's emerging from anesthesia include combativeness, thrashing, and crying. To promote adolescent health and to provide adolescents with appropriate interventions that will support a positive surgical outcome, research is needed to discover the perceptions and meanings adolescents attribute to the perioperative experience.
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to describe and capture the meaning of perioperative experiences of adolescents. The research question for this study was "What is the meaning of the perioperative experience to adolescents?" Max van Manen's phenomenological approach especially guided uncovering the descriptions of the meanings provided by the participants through the lifeworld: lived body, lived relation, lived space, and lived time. Although the lifeworld provided a way to interpret the perioperative experience, the Neuman Systems Model (NSM) allowed for further exploration of the perioperative experience.
Sigma Membership
Theta Tau
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Phenomenology
Research Approach
Qualitative Research
Keywords:
Perioperative Patients, Adolescents, Loss of Control, Postoperative Feelings, Stress
Advisor
Rosalind Peters
Second Advisor
Nancy George
Third Advisor
Karen Tonso
Fourth Advisor
Jean Davis
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
Wayne State University
Degree Year
2012
Recommended Citation
Monahan, Janean Carter, "Perioperative experience of adolescents" (2022). Dissertations. 1089.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/1089
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Review Type
None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2022-04-08
Full Text of Presentation
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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3517560; ProQuest document ID: 1032964245. The author still retains copyright.