Date of Award
1996
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Locsin, Rozzano
Abstract
This study provides a phenomenological analysis of living the experience of listening to music while recovering from surgery. The qualitative method used was that of Van Manen, as adapted by Munhall and outlined by Madayag. Specifically, this study describes three themes that emerged from transcribed interviews from eight participants who listened to music during recovery: (1) "comfort" from a discomforting condition which reveals the existential lived world of temporality; (2) "familiarity" in a strange environment, revealing the lived world of spaciality, and (3) "distraction" from fear, pain and anxiety, as the lived world of corporeality. In addition, implications for nursing research, practice, and education are discussed.
Extent
108 p.
Recommended Citation
McCaffrey, Ruth G., "lived experience of listening to music while recovering from surgery" (1996). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 953.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/953
Identifier
FADT15324
Comments
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.|Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing