Renal transplant failure and disenfranchised grief: Participants' experiences in the first year post-graft failure - a qualitative longitudinal study

International Journal of Nursing Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1271-1280

  Gill, Paul ^a   Lowes, Lesley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disenfranchised grief; Graft rejection; Grief; Loss; Phenomenology; Renal transplant failure; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRIEF; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84905270753     PISSN: 00207489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.01.012     Document Type: Article

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