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Table 2 Reflection of illness

From: Reflection of illness and strategies for handling advanced lung cancer – a qualitative analysis in patients and their relatives

Category

Sub-category

mentioned by

Thoughts about the reason

Why-me-question

a, b

Cancer causing factors

a, b

Influence of God

a, b

Struggle with one-self and others

a

Mischance, hazard

a

Finding no sense

b

Meaning of belief

Praying as a resource

a, b

God-given future

a

Illness testing the belief

b

Belief as a source of strenght

a

Experience of injustice

a

Belief in therapy

a

Experience of inequity

Cancer despite no smoking

a, b

Cancer despite healthy life

a

Illness unjust

a

Trajectory of illness unjust

a

  1. a = patients; b = relatives