"Being transformed by illness": adolescents' diabetes experience.
This research aimed to understand the experience of adolescents to live with a chronic illness like diabetes mellitus type 1. Symbolic Interactionism and Grounded Theory were both used as theoretical and methodological frameworks respectively. The results allowed us to know the adolescents' perceptions about their experience in living with diabetes through three themes: Knowing the diabetes diagnosis; Being transformed by illness and Being a sharp life. The adolescents in this study were resilient people because they became stronger in spite of the illness, being transformed. In this way, the resilient adolescent is capable of healing his/her wounds, being in charge of his/her own life and having a full life.
Damião
Elaine Buchhorn Cintra
EB
buchhorn@usp.br
Pinto
Carolina Marques Marcondes
CM
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent