Patients' experience of living with glaucoma: A phenomenological study

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 800-810

  Wu, Pei Xia ^a   Guo, Wen Yi ^a   Xia, Hai Ou ^a   Lu, Hui Juan ^a   Xi, Shu Xin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Focus group; Glaucoma; Hermeneutic phenomenology; Interviews; Nursing; Opthalmology; People's experiences

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLINDNESS; CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; UNCERTAINTY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLINDNESS; CHINA; CULTURE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GLAUCOMA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952717561     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05541.x     Document Type: Article

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