Hovering between suffering and enduring: The meaning of living with serious chronic illness

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 528-542

  Öhman, Marja ^a   Söderberg, Siv ^a   Lundman, Berit ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chronic serious illness; Enduring; Lived experience; Phenomenological hermeneutic; Reformulated self; Suffering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SWEDEN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PAIN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN;

EID: 0038147207     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732302250720     Document Type: Article

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