The family experience of "sudden health": The case of intractable epilepsy

Family Process

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 453-467

  Seaburn, David B ^a   Erba, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONDITIONING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EPILEPSY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EPILEPSY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2542540559     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2003.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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