title: [Emotional experience and subjective illness perception in chronic aphasia--a comparison of patients with their family members].
abstract: The results of a pilot study are demonstrated. 10 chronically aphasic patients and their relatives were interviewed by a semi-structured questionnaire. Main themes are the subjective perception and the emotional experience of psychosocial changes, psychological disturbances, communicative and neuropsychological impairments, as well as the perception of restraints caused by symptoms of disease. Methodological difficulties which arise from linguistic and communicative restrictions of aphasic patients are discussed. Data show clear emotional restraints of aphasics and their relatives in occupational, social, psychological and communicative areas. The results indicate independence of subjectively perceived alteration and its emotional experience. The differences of the emotional experience of aphasics and their relatives are discussed. While aphasics are more burdened by restrictions of independence, their relatives gave more importance to emotional changes and familiar problems.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Rehabilitationspsychologie, Universität Freiburg.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wenz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Herrmann
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D001037:Aphasia / Q000523:psychology*; D001364:Awareness; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012803:Sick Role
vernacular_title: Emotionales Erleben und subjektive Krankheitswahrnehmung bei chronischer Aphasie--ein Vergleich zwischen Patienten und deren Familienangehörigen.