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The Lived Experience of Recapturing Self-Care
- Source :
- Karolinska Institutet
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- AOTA Press, 2007.
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Abstract
- This study sought to identify the characteristics of the lived experience of recapturing self-care after a stroke or a spinal cord injury (SCI). Five people who had had a stroke and six with SCI who were in the midst of recapturing self-care (1–3 months after onset) were interviewed. All interviews were analyzed using the Empirical, Phenomenological, and Psychological method. Four main characteristics were present among all of the participants’ lived experiences: (a) becoming familiar with the new body, (b) recapturing self-care through trying, (c) reclaiming control, and (d) feeling uncertainty in the continued recapturing process. The findings indicate that a prerequisite for recapturing self-care was to get experience from doing to become familiar with the new body, which makes explicit the importance of enabling self-care in the rehabilitation process after stroke or SCI. The findings can be used in clinical practice to improve the understanding of how to better plan individualized self-care intervention.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Sweden
Gerontology
Rehabilitation
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medicine.medical_treatment
Lived experience
Stroke Rehabilitation
Middle Aged
Self Efficacy
Interviews as Topic
Self Care
Clinical Practice
Occupational Therapy
Feeling
Intervention (counseling)
medicine
Self care
Humans
Female
Psychology
Spinal Cord Injuries
Aged
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19437676 and 02729490
- Volume :
- 61
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The American Journal of Occupational Therapy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9a93f4a4f85a741b7db79e5dd3d85cb7