Dialogues with Hepatitis Victims:The Research of Chronic Hepatitis B Patients'' Suffering of Taking Interferon Therapy

• Main Authors: Chien-hui Chang, 張千惠
• Other Authors: Jin-lin You
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96075276260485399634

碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學研究所 === 99 === 　　The purpose of this research was to explore chronic hepatitis B patients’ suffering experience of accepting interferon therapy. The researcher interviewed four chronic hepatitis B patients who accepted the therapy through the research method of phenomenology. Via the experience and perception of intersubjectivity, and after the repeated reading, induction and analysis of text, the researcher aimed at chronic hepatitis B patients’ life world after they suffered from the disease and accepted interferon therapy to do the description and interpretation of eight major themes with the way of time axis: 1. The declaration of abnormal result of health examination report; 2. Becoming one member of the kingdom of disease; 3. Shuttling back and forth within the “great white tower (hospital);” 4. The chemical war between interferon and virus; 5. The suffering body under the said war; 6. Painstakingly guarding the new life of cherishing the liver; 7. Swaying and uneasy suffering heart; 8. Getting a glimpse of death, and finding love. 　 　　Besides, the researcher did two parts of comprehensive discussion as follows: 1. the plight of the hepatitis victims, and 2: the presentation of the hepatitis victims’ sufferings. The research found that the heart of a chronic hepatitis B patient would be in a swaying and uneasy state because of GOT and GPT, as well as the influence of the body’s feeling of tiredness; moreover, owing to the disease’s particularity, the total tiredness would be produced by the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual tiredness. By means of the research, the researcher had a deep understanding of hepatitis B patients’ suffering experience during the treatment, expecting the people to comprehend more clearly their true experience of suffering from the disease and therapy, as well as their demands, and pay attention to the patients’ feeling further and offer listening and support.