title: [Hoping for the future child: the father's experience in the intensive care unit].
abstract: This study was intended to analyse the experience of the father who have a child in an Intensive Care Unit, by applying the qualitative research under the phenomenological 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.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Cidade de São Paulo.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Angelo
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D002651:Child Advocacy; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003422:Critical Care / Q000523:psychology*; D003657:Decision Making; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology*; D005239:Fear; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009013:Morale; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D012649:Self Concept