title: Belonging: a qualitative, longitudinal study of what matters for persons after stroke during the one year of rehabilitation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the meaning of acting with others, in different places over the course of 1 year post-stroke.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative interviews with 9 persons, age range 42-61 years (7 persons with cerebrovascular accident and 2 with subarachnoidal haemorrhage) over the course of a year (i.e. 3, 6, 9 and 12 months) were analysed using a grounded theory approach.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four categories were identified from the analysis of the participants' experiences during the year of rehabilitation: (i) not recognized as the person I am; (ii) the burden of burden; (iii) inspiration and belonging through acting with others; (iv) reality adjustment through acting with others. From these categories a core category emerged: a process of belonging for integration.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The 4 categories identified suggest that belonging is integral to participation, which is viewed as the goal of rehabilitation.
authors.affiliation: NVS Department, Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden. anette.erikson@ki.se
authors.forename: Anette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Erikson
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Kerstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tham
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D012933:Social Identification; D012944:Social Support; D020521:Stroke / Q000523:psychology; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors