What can we learn from the personal insights of individuals living and coping with Multiple Sclerosis?

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 662-674

  Malcomson, K S ^a   Lowe Strong, A S ^a   Dunwoody, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coping; Focus group; Lived experience; Multiple sclerosis; Psychosocial; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB ACCOMMODATION; LIFE STRESS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF CARE; SOCIAL LIFE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 50549084786     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280701400730     Document Type: Article

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