Exploring lived experiences of persons with severe mental illness: A review of the literature

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-72

  Zolnierek, Cindy Diamond ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Texas Nurses Association   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; EXISTENTIALISM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; EXISTENTIALISM; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELF CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955687937     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01612840.2010.522755     Document Type: Article

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