| The Lived Experience of Auditory Hallucination of the Persons with Schizophrenia |
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Hye Young Kim1, Chung Sook Lee2 |
1Nurse, Chonnam National University Hospital
2Professor, Department of Nursing, Chonnam National University Medical School, Chonnam National University Research Institute of Nursing Science |
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Received: 14 May 2004 • Accepted: 10 June 2004 |
| Abstract |
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The purpose of this phenomenological study is to understand the lived experience of auditory hallucination of people with schizophrenia. The research question in this paper is "What is the lived experience of auditory hallucination that schizophrenia suffer from? , For this study, 11 subjects were chosen among people with schizophrenia, with their consent, who have the symptom of auditory hallucination and able to communicate for this purpose.
Data were analyzed based on Colaizzi(1978)*s analytic method of phenomenology, out of which we used 105 significant sentences and phrases. The following 9 categories of the meaning of auditory hallucination can be assumed based on the 85 significant statements from the subjects.
• An expression of obscurity in the situation where they cannot protect themselves from the extreme loneliness and/or difficulties.
• Experience in an unusual way to escape loneliness. • Obsession with strange nonverbal sounds continued without their intention.
• Desire for death in a failure of overcoming the agony.
• An feeling of extreme anxiety about hearing voices that other people do not hear.
• Want to be true presence with someone to understand them.
• Hope to talk about auditory hallucination with others.
• Desire to be helped by someone (The patients regard it something to be overcome with confidence when they feel helped by someone and realize how to reduce the voices) • Wish for a continuous relationship with others (They can be free from auditory hallucination with a personal relationship).
This study will provide with a new perspectives to understand the lived experience of auditory hallucination of the persons with schizophrenia, and also will be considered as the basis of the nursing intervention development to decrease the auditory hallucination. |
| Key Words:
Lived experience of auditory hallucination; Schizophrenia |
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