母親經歷癌症兒童死亡後之情緒調適

Emotional Adaptation of Mothers with Children Death of Cancer

本研究目的在探討母親經歷癌症兒童死亡後三個月至一年間的情緒調適。採用質性研究方法，與8位因癌症死亡兒童的母親進行電話錄音個別訪談，資料分析是採用Miles & Huberman (1994)的內容分析法，研究結果歸納出母親在病童死亡後的情緒調適包括：哀傷反應、心懷遺憾、牽掛、觸景傷情、睹物思人、盡最後心意、迴避、情感轉移及情緒外射。本研究結果有助於未來發展母親經歷癌症兒童死亡後的調適模式，並提供兒童安寧照顧理念推廣及家屬哀傷輔導的重要參考。

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore mother's emotional adaptation of living with the death of cancer children. Eight mothers of cancer children died at the duration of 3 months to 1 years were interviewed via phone and tape-recorded. The content analysis guided by Miles and Huberman (1994) was used to analyze the interview data. The findings shown that the emotional adaptation of mothers included grief response, solicitude, recall mixed memories, reminding child while seeing things, spare every efforts, avoidance, emotional transference, emotional projection. This study will help to develop a clinically applicable framework for mothers' adaptation model on child's death with cancer and may establish our knowledge for pediatric hospice care and parental bereavement program.