What is it about?
This article explores the basic existential conditions in life while going through the diagnostic phase of the autoimmune illness systemic lupus erythematosus.
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Why is it important?
The findings illuminate how going through the diagnostic phase of SLE could initiate an existential experience of being in a standstil-in-life. Experiencing a static life situates a person in a profound painfull situation. However, these existential experiences have rarely been part of supportive programs.
Perspectives
Exploring specific existential experiences and conditions during the course of a chronic illness could provide knowledge, which could be used to support patients in their struggle to maintain well-being despite illness.
Ms Janni Lisander Larsen
Aarhus Universitet
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This page is a summary of: Being in a standstill-of-life: women's experience of being diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus: a hermeneutic-phenomenological study, Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/scs.12491.
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