Methodology Subjects Protection Approval from the Institutional Review Board of Aurora St. Lukes Medical Center will be obtained prior to the study. Informed consent from all participants will be obtained. The participants will be told they are free to withdraw at any time. Confidentiality of all participants will be maintained throughout the study. Design A qualitative approach that is a descriptive phenomenological design will be used in this study. Phenomenology is rooted in philosophy and was developed by Husserl and Heidegger and is focused on the meaning of the individual’s lived experience (Polit & Beck, 2012). Subjective experiences are unique to each individual and are perceived differently by each person. Phenomenology strives to gain an understanding of a life experience and what it means to the individual having the experience. This insight is gained mainly from in-depth conversations with those experiencing the phenomenon of interest. Researchers and informants work together, but researchers must not bias the informant with leading questions (Polit & Beck, 2012). A variant of phenomenology is descriptive phenomenology, which will be used for this study. Descriptive phenomenology was developed in 1962 by Husserl (Polit & Beck, 2012). phenomenologists insist on the careful description of ordinary conscious experience “Descriptive of everyday life-a description of as people experience them” (Polit & Beck, 2012, p. “things” 495). In this case the to be studied are MS fatigue and how those with MS adapt to this “things” fatigue. Through the four commonly used steps of bracketing, intuiting, analyzing, and
Methodology Subjects Protection Approval from the Institutional Review Board of Aurora St. Lukes Medical Center will be obtained prior to the study. Informed consent from all participants will be obtained. The participants will be told they are free to withdraw at any time. Confidentiality of all participants will be maintained throughout the study. Design A qualitative approach that is a descriptive phenomenological design will be used in this study. Phenomenology is rooted in philosophy and was developed by Husserl and Heidegger and is focused on the meaning of the individual’s lived experience (Polit & Beck, 2012). Subjective experiences are unique to each individual and are perceived differently by each person. Phenomenology strives to gain an understanding of a life experience and what it means to the individual having the experience. This insight is gained mainly from in-depth conversations with those experiencing the phenomenon of interest. Researchers and informants work together, but researchers must not bias the informant with leading questions (Polit & Beck, 2012). A variant of phenomenology is descriptive phenomenology, which will be used for this study. Descriptive phenomenology was developed in 1962 by Husserl (Polit & Beck, 2012). “Descriptive phenomenologists insist on the careful description of ordinary conscious experience of everyday life-a description of “things” as people experience them” (Polit & Beck, 2012, p. 495). In this case the “things” to be studied are MS fatigue and how those with MS adapt to this fatigue. Through the four commonly used steps of bracketing, intuiting, analyzing, and