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Purpose: Setting meaningful goals for the rehabilitation process after acute illness is essential for rehabilitees recovery. The aim of this study was to understand the meanings of the goal setting situation with professionals from rehabilitees point of view. - Method: We included 20 acute stroke and back pain rehabilitees (mean age 66 y) who set goals with a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team. Data was collected by interviewing the rehabilitees after the goal setting situations. A qualitative analysis from a phenomenological perspective using Spiegelberg’s seven-phase meaning analysis was performed to reveal meanings. - Results: The five meanings were identified as: (i) “trust in the rehabilitation situation, professionals, oneself, and relatives;” (ii) “respectful presence;” (iii) “confusing awareness;” (iv) “disturbing pain;” and (v) “fear of unpredictability.” When professionals committed to working in a patient-centred manner, the rehabilitees felt respected and they trusted professionals and thus their self-efficacy was empowered. Moreover, relatives were an important support in the situation. However, disturbing pain and fear of the future limited patients level of participation in the situation. - Conclusion: Rehabilitee commitment to rehabilitation can be supported with equality in communication and presence of relatives, while pain and uncertainty because of changed health limit participation in a goal setting situation. peerReviewed

Bakgrund: Bipolär sjukdom är en kronisk sjukdom som medför lidande för individen. Sjukdomen kännetecknas av återkommande maniska och depressiva perioder. Den påverkar individens livsvärld och hens upplevelse av sin hälsa. Sjuksköterskan har en betydande roll i att stödja dessa patienter. Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva patienters upplevelser av att leva med bipolär sjukdom. Metod: En kvalitativ metod användes och baserades på sex självbiografier som analyserades med innebördsanalys. Resultat: I resultatet framkom fem teman. Dessa är: upplevelsen av att leva i becksvart mörker och det klaraste ljus, att uppleva skam, upplevelsen av att förlora kontrollen över sitt liv, att uppleva rädsla samt betydelsen av trygghet och stöd för att minska ensamheten. Diskussion: Personer med bipolär sjukdom upplever både hälsa och ohälsa beroende på vart i sjukdomen de befinner sig. Familjen och samhället har en inverkan på hur individen upplever sin tillvaro. Med stöd från en sjuksköterska kan personerna delvis kontrollera sin sjukdom. Deras verklighet förändras ständigt och stöd från sjuksköterskan är betydelsefullt. Konklusion: Personer med bipolär sjukdom upplever starka känslor som påverkar deras liv. För att personerna ska känna sig sedda och bekräftade måste sjuksköterskan visa öppenhet inför individens unika livsvärld. Background: Bipolar disorder is a chronic disease that entails suffering for the individual. The disease characterized by recurrent manic and depressive episodes. It affects the individual's lifeworld and his or her's health experience. The nurse has a significant role to support these patients. Aim: The aim is to describe patients' experiences of living with bipolar disorder. Method: A qualitative method was used and was based on six autobiographies analyzed with meaning analysis. Results: The results showed five themes. These are: the experience of living in the pitch-black darkness and the clearest light, the experience of shame, the experience of losing control of their life, the experience of fear and the sense of safty and support to reduce loneliness. Discussion: People with bipolar disorder experience both health and illness, depending on their current state of disease. The family and society have an impact on how the individual experience their existence. With support from a nurse the person can achieve control of the disease. Their reality is constantly changing and support from a nurse is important. Conclusion: People with bipolar disorder experience strong emotions that affect their lives. For people to feel seen and recognized the nurse must show candidness to the individual's unique lifeworld.