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The experience of being a partner to a spinal cord injured person: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study
This qualitative focuses on the personal experiences of partners to a spinal cord injured person. Using a Ricoeurian phenomenological-hermeneutic approach, we analysed seven partners’ narratives 1 and 2 years after their partner's injury. The study revealed how the injury was experienced from t...
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2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195410/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22007262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v6i4.7199 |
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description | This qualitative focuses on the personal experiences of partners to a spinal cord injured person. Using a Ricoeurian phenomenological-hermeneutic approach, we analysed seven partners’ narratives 1 and 2 years after their partner's injury. The study revealed how the injury was experienced from the partners’ perspective through the aftermath. In the acute phase after the injury, partners also felt harmed, and support was needed in relation to their own daily activities, eating, resting, and managing distress. During the institutionalized rehabilitation, partners felt torn between supporting the injured partner and the demanding tasks of everyday life outside the institution. After discharge, partners struggled for the injured partner to regain a well-functioning everyday life and for reestablishing life as a couple. The partner struggled to manage the overwhelming amount of everyday tasks. Some sought to reestablish their usual functions outside the family, whereas others focused on establishing a new life together. The partners experienced much distress and appreciated the support they got, but felt that they were mainly left to manage the difficult process on their own. |
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spelling | pubmed-31954102011-10-17 The experience of being a partner to a spinal cord injured person: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study Angel, Sanne Buus, Niels Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being Empirical Studies This qualitative focuses on the personal experiences of partners to a spinal cord injured person. Using a Ricoeurian phenomenological-hermeneutic approach, we analysed seven partners’ narratives 1 and 2 years after their partner's injury. The study revealed how the injury was experienced from the partners’ perspective through the aftermath. In the acute phase after the injury, partners also felt harmed, and support was needed in relation to their own daily activities, eating, resting, and managing distress. During the institutionalized rehabilitation, partners felt torn between supporting the injured partner and the demanding tasks of everyday life outside the institution. After discharge, partners struggled for the injured partner to regain a well-functioning everyday life and for reestablishing life as a couple. The partner struggled to manage the overwhelming amount of everyday tasks. Some sought to reestablish their usual functions outside the family, whereas others focused on establishing a new life together. The partners experienced much distress and appreciated the support they got, but felt that they were mainly left to manage the difficult process on their own. CoAction Publishing 2011-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3195410/ /pubmed/22007262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v6i4.7199 Text en © 2011 S. Angel & N. Buus. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Empirical Studies Angel, Sanne Buus, Niels The experience of being a partner to a spinal cord injured person: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study |
title | The experience of being a partner to a spinal cord injured person: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study |
title_full | The experience of being a partner to a spinal cord injured person: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study |
title_fullStr | The experience of being a partner to a spinal cord injured person: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study |
title_full_unstemmed | The experience of being a partner to a spinal cord injured person: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study |
title_short | The experience of being a partner to a spinal cord injured person: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study |
title_sort | experience of being a partner to a spinal cord injured person: a phenomenological-hermeneutic study |
topic | Empirical Studies |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195410/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22007262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v6i4.7199 |
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