Experience of being the spouse/cohabitant of a person with bipolar affective disorder: A cumulative process over time

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-18

  Tranvåg, Oscar ^a   Kristoffersen, Kjell ^b  

^a BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bipolar affective disorder; Care; Experience; Guidance; Health promoting education; Insight and meaning; Spouse cohabitant

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COST OF ILLNESS; FEAR; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LONELINESS; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COST OF ILLNESS; FEAR; FEMALE; GRIEF; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NORWAY; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 38949147794     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2007.00562.x     Document Type: Article

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