Examining Nursing Students’ Perspectives on Cancer through Metaphors in Turkey

Kirca, Kamile; Kaş, Canan

doi:10.1007/s10943-022-01529-1

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“…If the authors do not provide quotations from the data to support their classification of the metaphors elicited from the participants in their studies, we will exclude them from the results section, such as the studies by Lemmo et al, 25 Fergus et al 26 and Kırca and Kaş. 27 All these methodological considerations result from an observation that the selected papers are multidisciplinary in nature, and therefore, the ways they define and label metaphors are different. For instance, there are cases where the authors did not explicitly mention how they defined and labelled metaphors.…”

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Cancer experience in metaphors: patients, carers, professionals, students – a scoping review

Liu,

Semino,

Rietjens

et al. 2024

BMJ Support Palliat Care

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The use of metaphors to talk about cancer experiences has attracted much research and debate, especially in the case of military metaphors. However, questions remain about what metaphors are used by different populations for different aspects of the cancer experience. This scoping review aims to answer them.We searched PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Scopus and Web of Science databases. Eligible sources include peer-reviewed scientific research published in English between 2013 and 2023, investigating patterns of metaphor use from adult populations (age ≥18) for cancer-related topics, such as cancer itself, the general experience of being ill, treatment, and people and relationships.Out of 1929 articles identified, 30 met the criteria, spanning over different populations. While most papers focused on cancer in general, some focused on specific cancer types, such as breast cancer. Both spontaneous and elicited data were collected in ten languages: mostly English (N=12), Swedish (N=3) and Arabic (N=3). The identified metaphors were subsumed under various broad categories, including particularly violence and journey. Other categories include education and non-human animate entity for the cancer itself, confinement and deprivation and cleanliness for the general experience of being ill with cancer, Poison and gardening for cancer treatment, and distance for patients’ social relationships.It was found that metaphors help to identify how patients describe experiences of vulnerability and empowerment. To provide patient-centred care, clinicians and researchers should avoid blanket conclusions about helpful or unhelpful metaphors, but consider the ways in which different metaphors are used by different populations in different contexts.

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confidence: 99%