Body, participation and self transformations during and after in-patient stroke rehabilitation
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27006Date
2015-01-04Type
Journal articleTidsskriftartikkel
Peer reviewed
Abstract
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.
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Stockholm University PressCitation
Arntzen C, Hamran T, Borg T. Body, participation and self transformations during and after in-patient stroke rehabilitation. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 2015;17(4):300-320Metadata
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