African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery

African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Vol. 1 (2), pp. 032-039, November, 2014.  © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

The consuming encounters of patients hospitalized in a husky dystrophy ward in Japan: A phenomenological study

Akihito M.K Kurosawa and Haruki O. leyasu

Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Education and Health Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyō, Japan.

E-mail: [email protected]

Accepted 28 October, 2014

Abstract 

The point of this study was to investigate the backgrounds of patients hospitalized in a bulky dystrophy ward in Japan, with specific spotlight on their consuming encounters. Member perception and unstructured meetings were led, and information investigated by utilizing Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. Nine patients consented to take part in this study, albeit just five were incorporated in the examination. The larger subject of patients' consuming encounters was "developing new dietary patterns," which patients supported by encompassing environment and because of the expanding restorative backing and their dynamic useful decrease. The new dietary patterns were sorted out into five sub-subjects: "moving my body at my own will," "consuming freely," "figuring out how to acknowledge the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube," "an option to having dinners" and "utilizing tube sustaining." These new dietary patterns induced in patients a "wealthier," multisensory view of consuming, one where they don't simply depend on taste.

Keywords: Muscular dystrophy ward, patients, consuming encounters, phenomenology.