NCT02909543

The Life Experience of Young Women (Age 18-38) Who Live With Congenital Heart Disease

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 15 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 38 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This research will focus on young women between the ages of 18-38 who underwent a heart operation and their life experiences. This research will focus on these life events and the paradigm of these women being raised as "heart sick," and consequently lacking self-esteem (Frigiola, Bull, \& Wray, 2014; Hickey et al., 2012). Most qualitative studies focusing on the quality of life compare men and women, completely ignoring women's body image and the experience of womanhood (Hickey et al., 2012; Hövels-Gürich et al., 2007; Sarikouch, et al., 2013). This study aims to focus on women's stories about their life experiences and the influence of surgery(ies) on their daily life using an the qualitative phenomenological approach.

Conditions

• Women With Congenital Heart Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Observation and Interviwe	The research data will be conducted by using a semi structured interview of the participants in the study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-01
• Primary completion: 2017-09-01
• Completion: 2017-10-01
• First posted: 2016-09-21
• Last updated: 2016-09-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel