Buddhist Mothers’ Experience of Suffering and Healing After the Accidental Death of a Child
| dc.contributor.author | Kallaya Wiriya; Faculty of Nursing, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Urai Hatthakit; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Wantanee Wiroonpanich; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Lee Smith-Battle; Professor, School of Nursing, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-22T08:23:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-02-22T08:23:31Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2009-10-05 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-10-05 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Abstract: Numerous nursing studies have examined suffering, but none have addressed the suffering and healing Buddhist mothers experience after the accidental death of a child. The purpose of this study was to gain understanding of the meaning of sufferingand the practices of healing and suffering, among Buddhist mothers after such a loss. Buddhist concepts provided the philosophical framework, and Gadamerian hermeneutic phenomenology provided the methodological framework, for this investigation.Ten Buddhist mothers were recruited from a government hospital in Songkhla province, Thailand. In-depth interviews were conducted and data were analyzed using hermeneutics. Five themes that reflected the meaning of suffering amongBuddhist mothers, after the accidental death of a child, were identified. They included: the mother’s heart was torn into pieces; the mother’s body was frozen andshe was uncertain she would survive; happiness in the mother’s life was missing; the mother’s anger and rage at self and others; and, the mother worried and wondered about the next life of her deceased child. The mothers were found to heal their suffering by: transforming their relationship with the deceased child; elevating the deceased child to be a very good child capable of going to heaven; making merit in order to pass the benefit to the deceased child; self-healing through understanding and mind cultivation; and, seeking support. The findings promote the understanding of the suffering and coping of Buddhist mothers whose child accidentally died. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Thai Journal of Nursing Research; Vol.13 No.3 July-September 2009 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/132452 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The Thailand Nursing Council | en_US |
| dc.rights | Thailand Nursing and Midwifery Council, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand | en_US |
| dc.source.uri | https://thailand.digitaljournals.org/index.php/TJNR/issue/archive | en_US |
| dc.source.uri | https://thailand.digitaljournals.org/index.php/TJNR/article/view/103 | en_US |
| dc.title | Buddhist Mothers’ Experience of Suffering and Healing After the Accidental Death of a Child | en_US |
| dc.type | Articles | en_US |