The meaning of women's experience of living with long-term urinary incontinence is powerlessness

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1946-1954

  Hägglund, Doris ^a   Ahlström, Gerd ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Lived experience; Nursing; Phenomenological hermeneutics; Symptom management; Urinary incontinence; Women

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; BODY IMAGE; CONTROL; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; PELVIS FLOOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SWEDEN; TABOO; URINE INCONTINENCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PELVIC FLOOR; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SWEDEN; TABOO; URINARY INCONTINENCE; WOMEN;

EID: 34548738964     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.01787.x     Document Type: Article

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