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The experience of flatus incontinence from a bowel ostomy: a hermeneutic phenomenology.
J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs
July 2007
La Trobe University Postgraduate Clinical School of Community Nursing, RDNS Helen Macpherson Smith Institute of Community Health, Victoria, Australia.
Objective: To interpret and present possible meanings in the stories of people with bowel ostomies about their experience of impact of flatus incontinence on their life and being.
Design: Hermeneutic phenomenology guided by a Gadamerian perspective.
Setting And Subjects: Six people with a bowel ostomy were recruited from a city in Australia.
Triangulation of qualitative approaches: hermeneutical phenomenology and grounded theory.
J Adv Nurs
October 2006
Professor of Community Nursing, La Trobe University, RDNS Helen Macpherson Smith Institute of Community Health, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
Aim: In this paper, suggestions are offered about the appropriate use of hermeneutic phenomenology and grounded theory in one study.
Background: As an alternative to selecting only one qualitative research approach to illuminate a topic of interest about which little is known, two qualitative approaches could be used in a study. Fear of 'method slurring' may prevent this alternative being used.
Constipation and the preached trio: diet, fluid intake, exercise.
Int J Nurs Stud
November 2003
RDNS Helen Macpherson Smith Institute of Community Health, La Trobe University, Australia.
A survey of 90 older community-dwelling people's constipation experience is reported in part. The focus is the participants' efforts to use diet, fluid intake and exercise as preventive strategies. Most feel that they have been preached to in this regard.
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