title: [The process of caring for burned patients: cultural significance attributed by relatives].
abstract: This study aimed at investigating the cultural meanings attributed by relatives to their participation in the process of delivering care to burned people; identifying the care strategies focused on by relatives during their participation in the care process. Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews with 25 relatives of burned patients admitted in a Unit for Burned and by participant observation. The results of this study show that the perspective of giving care to a burned person has two dimensions: a physical dimension and a moral one; and generates mainly fear.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Geral e Especializada, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto SP. rizzardo@glete.eerp.usp.br
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Rossi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002056:Burns / Q000451:nursing*; D002648:Child; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006701:Home Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male