Living with clipped wings-Patients' experience of losing a leg

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Norlyk, Annelise ^a,b   Martinsen, Bente ^a   Kjaer Petersen, Klaus ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Amputation; Caring; Existential dimensions; Lived experience of losing a leg; Mobility; Phenomenology; Reflective Lifeworld Research; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; BODY IMAGE; DENMARK; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; LEISURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SURGERY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERY ELDERLY; ARTICLE; CARING; EXISTENTIAL DIMENSIONS; LIVED EXPERIENCE OF LOSING A LEG; MOBILITY; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFLECTIVE LIFEWORLD RESEARCH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; BODY IMAGE; DENMARK; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PATIENTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

AMPUTATION; CARING; EXISTENTIAL DIMENSIONS; LIVED EXPERIENCE OF LOSING A LEG; MOBILITY; PHENOMENOLOGY; REFLECTIVE LIFEWORLD RESEARCH; REHABILITATION;

EID: 84886672371     PISSN: 17482623     EISSN: 17482631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/qhw.v8i0.21891     Document Type: Article

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