Constructing the stroke: Sudden-onset narratives of stroke survivors

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 928-941

  Faircloth, Christopher A ^a,b   Boylstein, Craig ^a   Rittman, Maude ^a   Gubrium, Jaber F ^c  

^a Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Body; Chronic illness; Narrative; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; FRENCHAY ACTIVITIES INDEX; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BODY IMAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; SURVIVORS;

EID: 25444510635     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732305277842     Document Type: Article

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