In this thesis, I explored the relationship between patient experience of wait time for consultation and scheduled surgery, type of illness (orthopaedic or cardiac), and descriptions of time using qualitative methodology. Thirty two patients awaiting orthopaedic or cardiac surgery were recruited by surgeons in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan during the period of September 2009 to November 2010. Those patients awaiting orthopaedic surgery were interviewed when the decision to treat was made and again at the midpoint of their waiting period. Cardiac surgery patients were interviewed after their angiography and consent to surgery, and again the day prior to surgery. Patients were asked about their perceptions of time while waiting, maximum acceptable wait time for consultation and surgery, and the effects of waiting. Interpretative phenomenology (1) was the method and data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis.Participant suffering, the meaningfulness given to the experience, and the agency participants felt they had over the waiting period determined the lived duration of time experience. Participants considered pain, mobility restriction, disease progression and lethality of condition to be the primary determinants of wait time maximums. Waiting effects included restriction, uncertainty, resignation, coping with waiting, and opportunity. Few subtle differences between groups emerged indicating other variables may be more relevant to the quality of waiting experience. Participant suggestions for improving experience consisted of managing patient conditions and navigating the system. The findings suggest uncertainty in illness impacts the quality of wait time experience. The study denotes the experience of waiting for scheduled surgery is complex and not necessarily a linear relationship between greater symptom severity and less tolerance for wait time.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:21:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Karen Cristine Barbosa Costa.pdf: 1225636 bytes, checksum: 5f89af366fa38ab4a7a6402b6641e6e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-10 / Having as a start point the Phenomenology applied to an specific social context, the Hip Hop movement, this work concerns on the daily life of the movement youth to learn the meanings of living the time. We presented here an overview about Hip Hop, its main characteristics and elements. Then, we focused on the concepts of lived time and care, as well as their characteristics, after that, we conclude with some considerations about possible connections between these concepts allied to Hip Hop. The movement participants are described as active in the learning life, abandoning the figure of mere receptors of an unequal social model. That is, in the Hip Hop, they bring off their lives by means of an ethical education. Through the categories analysis on apprehended discourses, it is concluded that the Hip Hop gives to the participants acquisition opportunities of a life motivation, by the time experience in relation to the place and the others. Thus, it permits that, in the dialog between individual and its context, the foundation of a successful human being life. Furthermore, the Hip Hop movement visibility can contribute to the comprehension of the current society, recognizing in this movement capable subjects to formulate consistent suggestions of change, in an unequal social model context. / Tendo como ponto de partida a Fenomenologia aplicada a um contexto social específico, o movimento Hip Hop, este trabalho discorre sobre o cotidiano de jovens pertecentes ao movimento, com o objetivo de apreender os significados do viver o tempo. Apresentamos aqui um panorama sobre o Hip Hop, com suas principais características e os elementos que o compõe. Em seguida, abordamos os conceitos sobre o tempo vivido e o cuidar, bem como suas características, logo após, finalizamos com algumas considerações acerca das possíveis ligações destes conceitos com o Hip Hop. Participantes desse movimento são descritos ativos na aprendizagem da vida, deixando de serem meros receptores de um modelo social desigual. Ou seja, no Hip Hop eles resgatam suas vidas por meio de uma formação ética. Mediante o exame das categorias diante dos discursos apreendidos, é concluso que o Hip Hop confere aos seus participantes oportunidades de aquisição de um sentido para a vida, por intermédio da experiência do tempo em articulação com o espaço e com a relação com os outros. Com isso, permite-se que no diálogo do indivíduo com seu contexto sejam construídos, em indissociável inter-relação, os fundamentos de uma vida humana bem sucedida. Portanto, a visibilidade do movimento Hip Hop pode contribuir para uma compreensão da sociedade atual, reconhecendo neste movimento sujeitos competentes para formular propostas de mudanças abrangentes e consistentes, dentro de um modelo social desigual.