Body, participation and self transformations during and after in-patient stroke rehabilitation
Engelsk titel: Body, participation and self transformations during and after in-patient stroke rehabilitation
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Författare:
Arntzen, Cathrine
;
Hamran, Torunn
;
Borg, Tove
Email: cathrine.arntzen@uit.no
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 32
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 15103485
Sammanfattning
This study explores stroke survivors' experience of being part of an institutional rehabilitation
context and what it means for the immediate experience of discharge home. The aim is to develop a
deeper understanding of how the dynamic phenomenon body, participation in everyday life and
sense of self interrelates and changes through stroke survivors' movement in and between the two
contexts and what this phenomenon means for stroke survivors' process of change and well-being in
the early rehabilitation trajectory. Repeated, retrospective, in-depth interviews were conducted with
nine persons living with moderate impairment after stroke and their closest relatives.
Phenomenological and critical psychological concepts are used for analysing the data. Stroke
survivors' experience indicates that their time as in-patients is important for their safety in the early
juncture. Being part of an institutional rehabilitation context mobilizes stroke survivors' to optimize
focus, energy and hope of physical recovery. At the same time it appears to postpone feelings of
uncertainty and grief as well as reflection on their situation. However, immediately after homecoming
a critical passage in the stroke survivors' rehabilitation trajectory appears because the perception of
body, participation in everyday life and the sense of self undergo profound changes. This study
stresses the importance of broadening the scope of professional initiative and paying attention to the
post-rehabilitation context of everyday life during the in-patient stay.