To cope with uncertainty: Stroke patients' use of temporal models in narratives

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 367-374

  Hjelmblink, Finn ^a   Holmstrom, Inger ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Discourse of medicine; Narrative; Stroke; Temporality; Time models

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; MODEL; NARRATIVE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; STROKE; URBAN AREA; VICTIM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NARRATION; SWEDEN; TIME; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 33751273672     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2006.00415.x     Document Type: Article

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