Getting on with life: Positive experiences of living with a spinal cord injury

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1455-1468

  Weitzner, Eleanor ^a   Surca, Susan ^a   Wiese, Sarah ^a   Dion, Andrea ^a   Roussos, Zoe ^a   Renwick, Rebecca ^a   Yoshida, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

disability disabled persons; education, patient; rehabilitation; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053308338     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732311417726     Document Type: Article

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