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Defining Health And Health-Related Behaviors Following A Near-Death Experience, Suzanne C. Robertson Phd
Defining Health And Health-Related Behaviors Following A Near-Death Experience, Suzanne C. Robertson Phd
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While broad categories of health and influences on definitions of health have been identified, the process through which adults define and re-define health has not been researched. The purpose of this study was to investigate the process of defining health and appropriate health-related behaviors following a near-death experience (NDE) as an adult and to articulate a grounded theory of decision-making. Five men and 15 women from the United States and United Kingdom were interviewed and the data were analyzed using the constant comparative method. The basic social process was I Still Had to Go Through the Process of Understanding. Understanding …