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**Understanding between care providers and patients with stroke and aphasia: a phenomenological hermeneutic inquiry** The present study illuminates the understanding in communication between formal care providers and patients with stroke and aphasia. Five care providers and three such patients participated in the study. Video recordings were made during conversations about pictures (__n__ = 15), and the care providers were also interviewed (__n__ = 15) after the video‐recorded conversations. A phenomenological hermeneutic method of interpretation of the interview text was used. The findings showed that a range of conditions for ‘understanding and being understood’ in the communication on the part of the care providers exists. These different conditions are: __lacking__ both knowledge and understanding; __having__ knowledge but not necessarily accompanied by understanding; and __being__ in understanding. Within the condition ‘being in understanding’, the care providers create a feeling of at‐homeness in a relaxed atmosphere and thus have the opportunity to be in ‘understanding and being understood’ together with the patient. The condition ‘being in understanding’ appears in connecti

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Author

Karin Sundin; Lilian Jansson; Astrid Norberg

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1320-7881)

Published

2002

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)