[Family experiences of living with chronic schizophrenic patients - application of Parse's human becoming research methodology].
OBJECTIVE
This study was aimed at understanding the nature of the suffering of families with patients in mental health nursing homes and hoped to contribute to the rehabilitation process of those with a chronic mental disorder.


METHODS
Research methodology was based upon Parse's human becoming research methodology.


RESULTS
a) Despite the despair the family feels by the violence caused by their now-institutionalized relative, they also realize anew the importance of their role as protectors b) Although they fear social stigmatization they also try to be supportive, out of guilt feelings; c) They regret their severe rearing style and wish to be more sympathetic, d) They find courage and hope through family therapy, which leads to a better understanding of the illness, e) With hopes of rehabilitation, the family members feel happy and go through an emotional release, by sharing the pain with each other.


CONCLUSIONS
Families of nursing home residents share a focus on the process of human-health-universe. This is a positive, 'human-becoming' process with which, based on past feelings of despair, fear, resignation, and pain, one can render meaning into his or her experiences in the present in the pursuit of love, conquest, hope, liberty and success.
Lee
Ok Ja
OJ
Department of Nursing Science, Konyang University, Korea.
Choi
Young Sook
YS
D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D022143:Family Nursing; D005195:Family Relations; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D009735:Nursing Homes; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000379:methods*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000451:nursing*