Experience of Patients with Vertigo: a Case Study
- DOI
- 10.2991/hsic-17.2017.32How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Vertigo, Experience, Case Study
- Abstract
Erratic vertigo disorders, drugs that continue to be consumed, and environmental conditions cause stress so it can cause depression. Vertigo is an important problem to be studied in order to obtain the data in a complete qualitative related to the complaint and its impacted both to physical and psychological and social.Objectives: to explore the experiences experienced, felt, and thought by vertigo sufferers in dealing with their health status before, during and after vertigo attacks. To identify what did the changes occur to the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual Vertigo sufferers in living their daily lives with their vulnerable conditions of recurrence. Method: This research used qualitative design with case study approach. Data collected in depth-interview form to 7 participants who had Experiencing of vertigo more than a year in Janti Health Center Malang. Participants selected by Purposive Sampling technique. Data analysis used Colaizzi method. Results: identified six themes of this study: (1) Vertigo Arrived Suddenly, (2) Physical and Psychological Stressor Caused Recurrence, (3) Physical Discomforts to the Impact of Vertigo, (4) Vertigo sufferers at risked of physical injury, (5) Strived to Reduce Vertigo, (6) Required support from families and nearby person. Conclusion: Vertigo causes made the patient's condition becomes very unstable and greatly affect the daily living.
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- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Faqih Ruhyanuddin AU - Lutfi Agung Priambodho PY - 2017/10 DA - 2017/10 TI - Experience of Patients with Vertigo: a Case Study BT - Proceedings of the Health Science International Conference (HSIC 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 200 EP - 206 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/hsic-17.2017.32 DO - 10.2991/hsic-17.2017.32 ID - Ruhyanuddin2017/10 ER -