Life with an Indwelling Urinary Catheter

The Dialectic of Stigma and Acceptance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5454737
AutoresMary H Wilde (University of Massachusetts Amherst, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen13
Número9
Páginas1189-1204
Fecha de publicación2003-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732303257115
PMID14606409
OpenAlexW2148189418
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas24

The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenology was to describe and interpret the lived experience of long-term users of urinary catheters. Living with a urinary catheter involved a dialectical swing between acknowledgment that the catheter was 'a part of me' and feelings of alienation and vulnerability when it was experienced as a stigma. Themes include Adjusting to embodied changes by perceiving the catheter as a 'part of me,' Shame and responding to shame by normalizing, and Embarrassment and coping with embarrassment by humor. Providers can minimize stigma related to the visibility of the catheter by coaching patients in strategies to manage going out of the home with a minimum of urine accidents or by helping develop ways to conceal the urine bag

Embarrassment · Feeling · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Shame · Sociology · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Medicine · Pelvic floor disorders treatments · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urinary Tract Infections Management