Meaning of illness and illness representations, crucial factors to integral care

EDTNA-ERCA Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 81-85

  Velez E ^a   Ramasco, M ^b  

^a Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

^b Grupo de Intervencion en Drogas de la Sociedad Espanola de Medicina Familiar Y Comunitaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Haemodialysis; Meaning of illness; Social representation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; HABIT; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SELF CONCEPT; SYMBOLISM; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUSALITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITS; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NARRATION; NEGATIVISM; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SICK ROLE; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 33748659476     PISSN: 1019083X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-6686.2006.tb00456.x     Document Type: Article

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