Publication: Helping young adult children with traumatic brain injury: The life-world of mothers
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2008-08-01
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15527557
10497323
10497323
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Mahidol University
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Qualitative Health Research. Vol.18, No.8 (2008), 1062-1074
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Suporn Wongvatunyu, Eileen J. Porter Helping young adult children with traumatic brain injury: The life-world of mothers. Qualitative Health Research. Vol.18, No.8 (2008), 1062-1074. doi:10.1177/1049732308320111 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/19587
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Helping young adult children with traumatic brain injury: The life-world of mothers
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Few scholars have described the personal-social context of the maternal experience of helping young adult children who have survived a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Viewing context as life-world, we used a descriptive phenomenological method to explore the life-world of 7 mothers whose young adult children had suffered a moderate or severe TBI at least 6 months earlier. Conducting three interviews with each mother, we discerned five features of life-world: having a child who survived a TBI as a young adult, perceiving that life has really changed, having sufficient support/feeling bereft of any help, believing that my child is still able, and believing that I can help my child. Compared to the literature, findings led to more definitive practice implications about postinjury uncertainty and maternal role change. In studies with such mothers, researchers should focus on the continuity of mothering rather than the initiation of caregiving. © 2008 Sage Publications.