Abstract
Introduction. Psychosocial distress emerges in cancer disease. This research explores experience of conflict, anxiety, and depression in one year cancer survivor. Methods. Data were collected through in-depth semi structured interviews with fifteen participants when seeking treatment at a public hospital in Bandung. Result. There nine themes emerge: anxiety about cancer’s spread and recurrence, changing relationships with a partner, 'labeling' from oneself and others, physical discomfort along treatment, psychological discomfort along treatment, self-concept, religious/spiritual, hiding diagnose and complain, and deficit information about cancer. But, four themes among were not characterized with conflict, anxiety, and depression. Conflict, anxiety, and depression impact condition of the client cancer. Discussion. Experience of conflict, anxiety, and depression became the basis for the development of management system service and provision of facilities for integrated mental health nursing therapy.Key word: cancer, conflict, anxiety, depression
Highlights
Psychosocial distress emerges in cancer disease
Data were collected through in-depth semi structured interviews with fifteen participants when seeking treatment
depression became the basis for the development of management system service and provision
Summary
Metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi yang digunakan ini bertujuan untuk melihat kondisi alamiah pengalaman konflik, ansietas, dan depresi partisipan yang menderita kanker setelah satu tahun didiagnosa kanker dan mendapat terapi. Pengalaman menderita secara fisik yang dialami partisipan selama menjalani proses pengobatan dapat berupa: trauma akibat prosedur terapi, perjalanan menuju rumah sakit yang melelahkan, tinggal di tempat sementara.
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