Topics of talks between a cancer patient and a volunteer

Topics of talks between a cancer patient and a volunteer The bachelor thesis on this topic I chose for several reasons - the main one was, that I perform a volunteer activity in a cancer ward at the Hospital of České Budějovice from the first year of the studies at the local fakulty. The second reason of the choice just of this topic was my interest and need to make the best of the time spent in the cancer ward as a volunteer not only for my own development, but to provide obtained useful information and knowledge to other people - especially to other current or future volunteers and best of all also to those who so far only consider about the volunteering or they have never heard about it yet. Cancer diagnoses are last but not least even today a relatively taboo topic and at the same time, unfortunatelly, they are becoming more frequent. In my bachelor thesis I concentrated on a content of conversations which I led with cancer patients as a volunteer. To collect the data I used a qualitative approach - a method of a narrative inteview and an observation. Data processing was carried out primarily through a qualitative analysis of the inteviews with cancer patients, which I re-recorded into my notebook, and then through a quantification - counting a frequency of topics. Cancer patients were representated by a 20-member sample from the cancer ward in the Hospital of České Budějovice. The research brought very interesting results. I named topics, which the patients with the volunteer like to talk about, and topics, which the patients bring to the conversation themselves and I counted their frequency. As well there were described the topics, which evokate a deterioration or an improvement in their mood. I figured out the frequency of the topics. Then I found out that I cannot identify communication blocks, because I did not met any. The results showed that the cancer patients have no problems to speak on the topic, which is in today´s society largely still a taboo - on their illness. The patients prove to entrust even to the volunteer - thus to a person, who is foreign to them