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Stress in communication in families taking care about persons after coma awakening
Author(s) -
Lina Miliūnienė,
Liuda Radzevičienė,
Turan Tolga Vuranok
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
social welfare interdisciplinary approach
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2424-3876
pISSN - 2029-7424
DOI - 10.21277/sw.v2i6.269
Subject(s) - psychology , erasmus+ , coping (psychology) , qualitative research , coma (optics) , stress (linguistics) , communication skills , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , medical education , sociology , art , social science , linguistics , physics , philosophy , the renaissance , optics , art history
The article presents the results of the pilot research, which reveals the communication in a family taking care of their adult children after awakening from coma. The research is sponsored by Erasmus+ project “Links United for Coma Awakenings through Sport” No. 557075-EPP-1-2014-1-IT-SPO-SCP. Analysing the results of family communication and coping with stress qualitative research was applied. The results show that family members taking care about their adult children awakening after coma experience a different level of stress. Communication peculiarities reflect the lack of communication skills. The ways to cope with stress in the communication process are individual and based on self-realization and meeting of emotional needs of the family

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