Ill health is powerlessness: A phenomenological study about worthlessness, limitations and suffering

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 135-144

  Strandmark K , Margaretha ^a  

^a NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ill health; Phenomenology; Powerlessness; Suffering; Worthlessness

Indexed keywords

ALIENATION; ARTICLE; DISABILITY; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; GUILT; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTIMACY; LIFE; PHENOMENOLOGY; SHAME; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CONTROL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXISTENTIALISM; FAMILY; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SWEDEN; TRUST;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EXISTENTIALISM; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; SHAME; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; TRUST;

EID: 3142690014     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2004.00275.x     Document Type: Article

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