To regain participation in occupations through human encounters - Narratives from women with spinal cord injury

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 1679-1688

  Isaksson, Gunilla ^a   Josephsson, Staffan ^b   Lexell, Jan ^a,c   Skär, Lisa ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Occupational therapy; Rehabilitation; Relations; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; OCCUPATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPINAL CORD INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OCCUPATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 39049111637     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280601056061     Document Type: Article

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