Using phenomenology to investigate patients' experiences in diseases entailing "mistaken" perceptions : examples from a research study on hemispatial neglect following stroke / Marianne Elisabeth Klinke, Helga Jonsdottir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klinke, Marianne Elisabeth, author.

Helga Jonsdottir, 1957- author.

Series:

SAGE Research Methods. Cases.

SAGE Research Methods. Cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neglect (Neurology)--Research--Case studies.

Neglect (Neurology).

Cerebrovascular diseas??Patients--Research--Case studies.

Cerebrovascular diseas??Patients.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

Nurses conducting phenomenological research studies predominantly use interview data obtained from participants who are capable of providing accounts that show a reality-reflecting comprehension of their situation. However, many patients have experiences that diverge from the reality observed by others or they are incapable of providing adequate verbal accounts. To mention a few examples, such patients include those with cognitive disabilities, psychiatric diseases, young children, and patients with aphasia. Throughout nearly 20 years of clinical experience as a neuroscience nurse, I have wondered what the experience of patients with hemispatial neglect is like. Hemispatial neglect is an extreme situation where there is a lack of fit between patients' perceptions and the experiences of their caregivers. Patients with severe neglect seem to ignore people who approach them from the left as well as objects placed within the left visual field and may even refute the existence of their left arm and leg. Although many patients with neglect have intact communicative abilities, they often lack insight into their situation. Some may claim that they can walk despite being paralyzed, and others maintain that they see everything normally to the left when behaving as if the left side has disappeared. Driven by a need to reveal neglect patients' experiences to ultimately improve their rehabilitation care and enhance professional comprehension, me and my supervisor Helga Jonsdottir searched for effective ways to describe subjective experiences of patients whose experiences can be seen as "mistaken" in some ways.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526420985 (ebook) :

9781526420985

OCLC:

984175209