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This study examines how persons with visuospatial agnosia following stroke experience their interaction with the physical environment in everyday occupations. Eight clients with cerebrovascular lesions agreed to participate. These participants were interviewed twice and the data were collected and analysed using the empirical phenomenological psychological (EPP) method. The findings describe three main themes comprising six main characteristics of how the physical world was experienced in a new, unfamiliar, and confusing way that interfered with the participants’ occupational performance and also with their experiences of being an individual "self-person". Furthermore, the study highlights their constant strife for mastery over the problematic physical world, a world that did not seem to provide them with support in their everyday occupations. These findings contribute to the growing body of knowledge within occupational therapy concerning the occupational consequences of cognitive-perceptual impairments from the client's perspective.

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