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Living with chronic diseases – patient's experience?

Introduction: Project is supported by the Croatian Ministry of Science. It is focused on two diseases: myocardial infarction and diabetes mellitus, type 2 (30 + 30 patients) Methods: deep structured interviewing with the individual patient, traing to find their experience, audiotaped ad transcibed to the text ; b) grounded therory as a method of analysing the tekst (done by the researcher itself, and by 3 independent experts as a control method) Preliminary results: all patients are passing through several stages: schoc, ingorance, becaming aware that they have disease and that they should do sometning, chnaging lifes (even life golas), adoptation to and continuation to live with the disease as a partner…

Chronic disease; patient's experience; Croatia

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