Alexa Stuifbergen

• A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Analysis of Aging with a Childhood Onset Disability

  Tracie C Harrison, Alexa K Stuifbergen et al.•ARTICLE•Health Care For Women International•2005

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  In this qualitative study, we combined multiple interviews, field notes, life history review charts, and demographic questions to explore the life course experiences of 25 women, ages 55 to 65 years, who developed impairments due to paralytic polio during childhood. Based on a hermeneutic phenomenological methodology using thematic analysis, multiple themes emerged that traced their lives from childhood to later adulthood. The women described how…

• What Makes It So Hard? Barriers to Health Promotion Experienced by People With Multiple Sclerosis and Polio

  Heather Becker, Alexa K Stuifbergen et al.•ARTICLE•Family & Community Health•2004

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  Perceptions of barriers to health promotion were examined in three groups of individuals with disabilities: (1) those with multiple sclerosis, (2) those with postpolio syndrome, and (3) polio survivors without postpolio syndrome. While there were small statistically significant differences among the three groups, all rated fatigue and impairment as their most frequent problems. For all groups, financial and interpersonal resources contributed sig…

• What Makes It So Hard? Barriers to Health Promotion Experienced by People With Multiple Sclerosis and Polio

  Heather Becker, Alexa K Stuifbergen et al.•ARTICLE•Family & Community Health•2004

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  Perceptions of barriers to health promotion were examined in three groups of individuals with disabilities: (1) those with multiple sclerosis, (2) those with postpolio syndrome, and (3) polio survivors without postpolio syndrome. While there were small statistically significant differences among the three groups, all rated fatigue and impairment as their most frequent problems. For all groups, financial and interpersonal resources contributed sig…

• A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Analysis of Aging with a Childhood Onset Disability

  Tracie C Harrison, Alexa K Stuifbergen et al.•ARTICLE•Health Care For Women International•2005

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  In this qualitative study, we combined multiple interviews, field notes, life history review charts, and demographic questions to explore the life course experiences of 25 women, ages 55 to 65 years, who developed impairments due to paralytic polio during childhood. Based on a hermeneutic phenomenological methodology using thematic analysis, multiple themes emerged that traced their lives from childhood to later adulthood. The women described how…

Gerontology (2 obras) · Medicine (2 obras) · Pediatrics (2 obras) · Perception (2 obras) · Poliomyelitis (2 obras) · Psychology (2 obras) · Aging and Gerontology Research (1 obra) · Clinical Psychology (1 obra) · Clinical Psychology (1 obra) · Developmental psychology (1 obra)