Hospital meals are existential asylums to hospitalized people with a neurological disease: A phenomenological–hermeneutical explorative study of the meaningfulness of mealtimes

Hospital meals are challenging for neurological patients. Patients struggle with both physical eating disabilities and social issues during mealtimes. The aim of this study was to examine the meaningfulness of the phenomenon of hospital meals for hospitalized patients with a neurological disease.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Nursing Open

• Publication date

  2019-02-21

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/nop2.246PMID 30918713PMCID 6419126
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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