Roy Adaptation Model: Application of Theoretical Framework

Roy Adaptation Model has the five main concepts of nursing theory: the health, the person, the nurse, the adaptation and the environment. Roy views the person in a holistic way. The core concept in her model is adaptation. The concept of adaptation assumes that a person is an open system who responds to stimuli from both internal and external aspects of the person. This study will be guided by Roy Adaptation Model as a conceptual framework in order to (1) to investigate the relationship between environmental stimuli (focal, contextual, and Residual stimuli) and four adaptive modes of RAM which causes cancer related pain (2) and to note the effect of environmental stimuli on coping mechanism (3) to correlate research variable with theory concept, and to assist the researcher to predict the results and recommendations by answering the research question.