Fear of humiliation inhibits women's care-seeking behaviour for long-term urinary incontinence

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 305-312

  Hägglund, Doris ^a   Wadensten, Barbro ^a,b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Care seeking behaviour; Interviews; Lived experience; Nursing; Phenomenological hermeneutic; Urinary incontinence; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHAME; SWEDEN; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SHAME; SWEDEN; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 34548291933     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2007.00481.x     Document Type: Article

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