Resumen

ALONSO-MAZA, Miriam et al. Nursing care experiences of people with eating disordes: a qualitative study from patients’ perspective. Rev. Mex. de trastor. aliment [online]. 2022, vol.12, n.1, pp.1-14.  Epub 10-Jun-2024. ISSN 2007-1523.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fesi.20071523e.2022.1.675.

Eating Disorders are one of the most prevalent problems in our society being nursing care essential for recovery. It is therefore necessary to understand patients’ experience in order to adapt their actions to patients’ needs. This qualitative study offers an approach to nursing care experience of people with eating disorders from an hermeneutical phenomenological approach. Nineteen patients from Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) collaborated in the research through in-depth interviews and stories, which were thematically recorded, transcribed and analyzed. The results were grouped in four categories: 1. Unexpected help, 2. In search for roots: discovering the origin, 3. To break down barriers and build buttresses, 4. To understand the meaning of the eating disorder. Patients emphasize that nurses are as unexpected as relevant in their lives, showing the importance of psychological, emotional, social and personal aspects, as regulators of their food relationship, their body image and their corporeality experience. This investigation allows getting a deeper view of care relationship between nurses and patients, previously unknown, which makes it possible to widen the knowledge and to individualize the care provided.

Palabras llave : Eating Disorders; Nursing Care; Mental Health; Psychiatric Nursing; Hermeneutics.