The Lived Experience of Suffering of Women Who Have Attempted Suicide: A Parse's Research Method Study

Sang Sook Kim; Soo Jin Kim

doi:10.12934/jkpmhn.2014.23.3.186

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Kim and Kim: The Lived Experience of Suffering of Women Who Have Attempted Suicide: A Parse's Research Method Study

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2014; 23(3): 186-197.

Published online: 30 September 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2014.23.3.186

The Lived Experience of Suffering of Women Who Have Attempted Suicide: A Parse's Research Method Study

Sang Sook Kim¹, Soo Jin Kim²

¹Department of Nursing Service, Saint John of God Hospital, Gwangju, Korea.

²College of Nursing, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea.

Corresponding author: Kim, Soo Jin. College of Nursing, Chonnam National University, 160 Backseo-ro, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-840, Korea. Tel: +82-62-530-4951, Fax: +82-62-227-4009, pinehillkim@naver.com

Received 19 August 2014 Revised 26 September 2014 Accepted 26 September 2014

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Abstract

Purpose

This study was to use Parse's research method to discover the structure of the lived experience of sufferings of women who have attempted suicide.

Methods

This study was a qualitative research based on Parse's research method. Participants were 7 women who had attempted suicide and who were hospitalized in a Mental Hospital and in the Suicide-Prevention Center of G City. Data were collected by dialogical engagement between participants and the researcher from November, 2011 to February, 2013, and were analyzed through the extraction-synthesis and heuristic interpretation processes.

Results

Through the analyses, the structure was identified; The lived experience of suffering of women who have attempted suicide is the process that they ultimately found new meaning and value of life by speaking out their concealed pain through the intimate human contact with other people, although the women once decided to commit suicide to escape from extreme agony.

Conclusion

This study results suggest, therefore, that the nurses working in this field should try wholeheartedly to understand the suffering and agony of women who have attempted suicide and to provide practical nursing to help them revitalize their lives.

Keywords: Attempted suicide, Women, Psychological stress, Qualitative research

Figures and Tables

Table 1

Heuristic Interpretation of the Core Concepts

Notes

This article is based on a part of the first author's doctoral thesis from Chonnam National University.

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