Open this publication in new window or tab >>2010 (English)In: British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, ISSN 1747-0307, E-ISSN 2052-2800, Vol. 6, no 2, p. 86-93Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Aim: The aim was to analyse people's accounts of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) and to describe how they initiate and create meaning for the onset and events surrounding the SAH.
Background: Being struck by a SAH is a dramatic event, often followed by unconsciousness. There is therefore a special need for a patient to try to create some kind of meaning for the event during recovery and afterwards.
Method: Nine interviews were carried out in home settings and discourse analysis was used to interpret the data.
Findings: People stricken by SAH seem to be able to judge from memory for when they were becoming ill. Critical events related to SAH were existential threats and existential insights; and time as 'waiting' and time as 'structuring meaning'. The reconstruction of the illness event may be interpreted as an identity-creating process.
Conclusion: The reconstruction of the illness is a tool that can be used by nurses and other health professionals to understand a patient's self-positioning and identity-construction.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MA Healthcare Ltd., 2010
Keywords
Subarachnoid haemorrhage, Illness narratives, Pain, Memory, Meaning-making, Identity construction
National Category
Nursing Neurology
Research subject
Medical sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:his:diva-4155 (URN)10.12968/bjnn.2010.6.2.86 (DOI)
2010-06-162010-06-162023-11-09Bibliographically approved