"I refer to them as my colleagues": The experience of mutual recognition of self, identity and empowerment in multiple sclerosis

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 672-677

  Skår, Anne Britt Rundhovde ^a   Folkestad, Helge ^b   Smedal, Tori ^a   Grytten, Nina ^a  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Empowerment; Identity; Multiple sclerosis; Peer recognition; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORWAY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORWAY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84898665021     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2013.808273     Document Type: Article

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