The lived experience of waiting-to-know: Ebola at Mbarara, Uganda - hoping for life, anticipating death

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 173-181

  Locsin, Rozzano C ^a,b   Matua, Amandu Gerald ^a  

^a MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola; Epidemics; Infectious disease; Life worlds; Nurses; Phenomenological research; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; EXISTENTIALISM; FAMILY; FEAR; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MALE; MORALITY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; TIME; UGANDA; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXISTENTIALISM; FAMILY; FEAR; FEMALE; GRIEF; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MORALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; TIME FACTORS; UGANDA;

EID: 0036358590     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02069.x     Document Type: Article

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