Beyond the body image: A qualitative study on how adults experience lower limb amputation

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 180-191

  Senra, Hugo ^a   Oliveira, Rui Aragão ^a   Leal, Isabel ^a   Vieira, Cristina ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Amputation; lower limb; qualitative; self identity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEG; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PORTUGAL; PROSTHESIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMPUTATION; AMPUTEES; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BODY IMAGE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTUGAL; PROSTHESIS FITTING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856359797     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: 14770873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215511410731     Document Type: Article

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