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Hospital admission: coping and recovery

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Research has shown that going into hospital may be perceived as a source of threat by many patients. For the majority who enter hospital for treatment, one major threat, that of perceiving that one is ill, is already being confronted. Having to go into hospital acquires a social meaning; it implies the presence of an illness too serious to be treated by the doctor in his office or within the patient’s own home (Kornfield, 1979). On top of this, ‘illness alters the patient’s social role and his social relationships and hospitalisation dramatises this stage’(Coser, 1962).

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Bailey, R., Clarke, M. (1989). Hospital admission: coping and recovery. In: Stress and Coping in Nursing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2941-9_7

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