title: [An analysis of cancer survival narratives using computerized text analysis program].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study was done to explore experiences of persons living through the periods of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and self-care.
  
  
  METHODS
  With permission, texts of 29 cancer survival narratives (8 men and 21 women, winners in contests sponsored by two institutes), were analyzed using Kang's Korean-Computerized-Text-Analysis-Program where the commonly used Korean-Morphological-Analyzer and the 21st-century-Sejong-Modern-Korean-Corpora representing laymen's Korean-language-use are connected. Experiences were explored based on words included in 100 highly-used-morphemes. For interpretation, we used 'categorizing words by meaning', 'comparing use-rate by periods and to the 21st-century-Sejong-Modern-Korean-Corpora', and highly-used-morphemes that appeared only in a specific period.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The most highly-used-word-morpheme was first-person-pronouns followed by, diagnosis·treatment-related-words, mind-expression-words, cancer, persons-in-meaningful-interaction, living and eating, information-related-verbs, emotion-expression-words, with 240 to 0.8 times for layman use-rate. 'Diagnosis-process', 'cancer-thought', 'things-to-come-after-diagnosis', 'physician·husband', 'result-related-information', 'meaningful-things before diagnosis-period', and 'locus-of-cause' dominated the life of the diagnosis-period. 'Treatment', 'unreliable-body', 'husband · people · mother · physician', 'treatment-related-uncertainty', 'hard-time', and 'waiting-time represented experiences in the treatment-period. Themes of living in the self-care-period were complex and included 'living-as-a-human', 'self-managing-of-diseased-body', 'positive-emotion', and 'connecting past · present · future'.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results show that the experience of living for persons with cancer is influenced by each period's own situational-characteristics. Experiences of the diagnosis and treatment-period are negative disease-oriented while that of the self-care period is positive present-oriented.
authors: College of Nursing, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea. dskim@cnu.ac.kr.
authors: Dal Sook
authors: DS
authors: Kim
authors: Department of Communication, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
authors: Ah Hyun
authors: AH
authors: Park
authors: Department of Communication, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
authors: Nam Jun
authors: NJ
authors: Kang
mesh_terms: D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D016730:Program Development; D012648:Self Care; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: Analysis; Computers; Neoplasms; Personal narratives; Survival