Engelsk titel: Understanding a patient’s life project: Key in stroke rehabilitation?
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Författare:
Eilertsen, Grethe
Email: grethe.eilertsen@hbv.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 49
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 15063970
Sammanfattning
Background: Several stroke patients
face serious challenges in their lives. Few qualitative
longitudinal studies have examined the rehabilitation
process from the patient’s perspective.
Despite the fact that older women are a sizeable
group having strokes, little knowledge is documented
about their specific experiences and challenges.
Aim: To illuminate old women’s life projects and
the significance they ascribed these in rehabilitation
following a stroke.
Design and method: The study has a prospective,
longitudinal, case-study design, comprising
six women aged 68-82 suffering from first-time
strokes, recruited from two stroke units. Each participant
was interviewed in-depth 12-14 times during
the first two years. Most interviews took place
in their homes. Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics
informed the analyses.
Results: The women’s efforts to carry on and rebuild
their life projects constituted an essential part
of their rehabilitation. The experience of the altered
body led to fundamental changes in their experience
of themselves and possible ways of living.
Conclusion: Life projects concerned personal
frames of interpretation and values, which directed
and motivated the women’s rehabilitation. The
stroke caused fundamental and sustained changes,
but the meaning of the changes depended on the
extent they hampered the women’s life projects.