Managing chronic sorrow: Experiences of patients with multiple sclerosis

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 180-191

  Isaksson, Ann Kristin ^a   Ahlström, Gerd ^b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; FRIEND; GRIEF; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWEDEN; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; GRIEF; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NARRATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWEDEN;

EID: 49849104129     PISSN: 08880395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01376517-200806000-00009     Document Type: Article

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