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Neuropsychol Rehabil
January 2025
Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Experiences of loss and change following acquired brain injury (ABI) are frequent and multi-contextual, yet the long-term experiences of people with ABI are not well understood. This study explored the experiences of intrapersonal loss, grief and change in people with ABI, a decade after their injury. Twelve adults with ABI were interviewed 10-13 years post-injury.
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December 2024
Copenhagen Research Unit for Recovery, Mental Health Center Amager, Hans Bogbinders Allé 3, 3, 2300, Copenhagen S, Denmark.
Background: Health institutions advocate for psychosocial and recovery-oriented interventions alongside pharmacological treatment for severe mental illness. Participatory arts interventions appear promising in promoting personal recovery by fostering connectedness, hope, renegotiation of identity, meaning-making, and empowerment. Despite encouraging findings, however, the evidence base remains thin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Interpers Violence
October 2024
Western Galilee College, Acre, Israel.
This study examines the process of identity negotiation of 15 Muslim women who resisted severe abuse by their husbands and extended family by becoming mentally ill and thereafter, divorcing. Content analysis of the interview narratives shows that these women were poor, married young, and endured years of battering, isolation, and silencing for the sake of family honor and children's well-being. Entrapped within a web of sociocultural norms legitimizing wife beating, and abusive extended family relationships that annihilate their voice by branding them as /insane, these women explained that they were terrorized helpless victims fearing the stigma of being labeled insane and the resultant harm to their children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQual Res Med Healthc
July 2024
CUNY Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY, United States.
The following is an ethnographic study of a multiple sclerosis (MS) support group. This study underscores the importance of access to counternarratives for individuals with chronic illness and disabilities through organizational structures such as support groups. This work can help those with disabilities/chronic diseases, such as MS, because it provides a space for discussing the communicative forces that shape individual experiences of living with disability and chronic illness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSupport Care Cancer
July 2024
Department of Geriatrics, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Introduction: Cervical cancer (CC) and its treatments impact various dimensions of quality of life (QoL), including physical, psychological, and sexual functioning. Sexual health, a crucial QoL aspect, is often compromised, highlighting the necessity for open sexual communication.
Materials And Methods: This study involved 60 women diagnosed with stage IIb-IIIa CC.
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