The objective of this exploratory research is to identify and to describe the psychological specificities of the pancréatectomy which can in particular include the feeling of strangeness and confusion at the sick person towards its own body.
It will also be a question of estimating the relations of this experience with a possible state of post-traumatic stress. Indeed, the announcement of the cancer as well as the surgery in itself are two elements which can be considered as traumatic.
For it a double methodology will be used, with a design cross-sectionnal: a quantitative shutter(sector) (auto-questionnaires) allowing to study aspects of the psychosocial functioning, and qualitative shutter with a semi-structured interview concerning the subjective experience of the participants. For the interpretation of the meditative data of the conversations, we shall use the phenomenological interpretative analysis ( IPA) which will allow us to investigate in a comprehensive way the subjective experience of the participants by studying the way the people give meaning to the fact that they live.
