Cent Eur J Nurs Midw 2024, 15(1):1059-1067 | DOI: 10.15452/cejnm.2024.15.0003

“Trust is built in an inner principle”: an idiographic case study exploring the trust of a young man with chronic pancreatitis in healthcare professionals

Martina Tomagová, Juraj Èáp, Lucia Podolinská
Department of Nursing, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

Aim:  The idiographic case study aimed to explore the trust of a person with chronic pancreatitis in healthcare professionals.

Design:  An interpretive phenomenological idiographic case study.

Methods: Data collection was carried out through a semi-structured in-depth interview with a 29-year-old man with chronic pancreatitis. The purposive sampling of the participant was carried out according to feasibility criteria. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used with the assistance of Atlas.ti 9 for data analysis.

Results: Five interconnected personal experiential themes reflecting the trust of the participant in healthcare professionals were identified: Trust in healthcare professionals as an inner feeling; Active and partnership approach of healthcare professionals; Paternalistic approach and lack of interest of healthcare professionals in the patient; Expertise of healthcare professionals; and Linking trust in health professionals with the hospital ward environment, with 22 experiential statements.

Conclusion:  The participant considered trust to be an internal feeling of expectation that healthcare professionals would help him actively solve his health problems. The findings promote the implementation of patient-centered care and the partnership approach in the care of patients with chronic pancreatitis. The personal experience themes identified provide information for further qualitative research aimed at a deeper understanding of the lived experience of trust for patients with chronic pancreatitis.

Keywords: healthcare professionals, idiographic case study, interpretative phenomenological analysis, patient with chronic pancreatitis, trust

Received: July 5, 2023; Revised: January 8, 2024; Accepted: February 7, 2024; Published: March 6, 2024  Show citation

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Tomagová M, Èáp J, Podolinská L. “Trust is built in an inner principle”: an idiographic case study exploring the trust of a young man with chronic pancreatitis in healthcare professionals. Central European Journal of Nursing and Midwifery. 2024;15(1):1059-1067. doi: 10.15452/cejnm.2024.15.0003.
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