Exploring the psychological impact of amputation on surgical patients
Bendera, Neema; Mullari, Ella (2024)
Bendera, Neema
Mullari, Ella
2024
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024091024950
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024091024950
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The thesis topic was chosen based on the writers' personal interests. There was plenty of information regarding this topic, but no thesis work was actually done in recent years. The purpose of this thesis is to describe the psychological effects of amputation surgery. The goal was to understand how nurses may assist patients to cope with the psychologi-cal repercussions of amputation. The thesis was done as a literature review. The material used in this thesis was obtained by reading and analyzing full-text articles. The analysis was carried out using inductive content analysis. Comparing the found results to the obtained theory, it was noticed that there are parts related to amputation that were not talked about often, and then there were some topics that were brought up often. The re-sults can be used in future research to expand the topic of amputation and the topics around it, as well as to assist those who want to help people with amputations to cope or want to be a part of the operation.