Surviving Ebola: Understanding experience through artistic expression

International Nursing Review

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 156-166

  Locsin, R C ^a   Barnard, A ^b   Matua, A G ^c   Bongomin, B ^c  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Artistic representation; Ebola; Phenomenography; Qualitative research; Uganda; Visual methodology

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DEATH; DRAWING; EXPERIENCE; FATALITY; FEAR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MORTALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHENOMENOLOGY; SURVIVAL; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ART; ATTITUDE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; SURVIVORS; UGANDA;

EID: 0142089260     PISSN: 00208132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-7657.2003.00194.x     Document Type: Article

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