A positive turning point in life--how persons with late effects of polio experience the influence of an interdisciplinary rehabilitation programme.
(2010) In Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 42(6). p.559-565- Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To describe and enhance our understanding of how persons with late effects of polio experience the influence of an interdisciplinary rehabilitation programme. PARTICIPANTS: Twelve persons with clinically verified late effects of polio who had participated in an individualized, goal-oriented, comprehensive interdisciplinary rehabilitation programme. METHODS: Qualitative research interviews analysed using the constant comparative method of grounded theory. RESULTS: The rehabilitation programme was experienced as a turning point in the participants' lives. Before rehabilitation they felt they were on a downward slope without control. Rehabilitation was the start of a process of change whereby they acquired new skills, which, over... (More)
- OBJECTIVE: To describe and enhance our understanding of how persons with late effects of polio experience the influence of an interdisciplinary rehabilitation programme. PARTICIPANTS: Twelve persons with clinically verified late effects of polio who had participated in an individualized, goal-oriented, comprehensive interdisciplinary rehabilitation programme. METHODS: Qualitative research interviews analysed using the constant comparative method of grounded theory. RESULTS: The rehabilitation programme was experienced as a turning point in the participants' lives. Before rehabilitation they felt they were on a downward slope without control. Rehabilitation was the start of a process of change whereby they acquired new skills, which, over time, contributed to a different but good life. After approximately a year, they had a sense of control and had accepted life with late effects of polio. They had also established new habits, taken on a changed valued self and could look to the future with confidence. CONCLUSION: This qualitative study has shown that persons with late effects of polio can benefit from an individualized, goal-oriented, comprehensive interdisciplinary rehabilitation programme and experience positive changes in their management of daily activities and in their view of their late effects of polio, their future and their self. (Less)
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- Larsson Lund, Maria and Lexell, Jan LU
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- rehabilitationdisease management, Disabled Persons, Postpoliomyelitis Syndrome: physiopathology, Postpoliomyelitis Syndrome: rehabilitation, Postpoliomyelitis Syndrome: psychology, treatment outcome, patient education, activities of daily living
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- Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
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- 42
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- 6
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- 559 - 565
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- Taylor & Francis
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- 1651-2081
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- 10.2340/16501977-0559
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- English
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