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Good Grief? is a patient voiced study about meaning reconstruction as part of the psychology of kidney transplant loss and hemodialysis. The work takes an innovative approach to health research, combining narrative, auto-ethnography and arts based dissemination. It considers the importance of the patient´s lived expertise of experience in health-related knowledge translation and the evolution of agency through behavioural change. The narrative outcomes appear in Dr. Lewis´s short film, Good Grief?, which provides a succinct example of patient voice in research. The inquiry re applies Neimeyer´s Meaning Reconstruction Model of grief psychology to the experience of kidney transplant loss in End Stage Renal Disease.

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Leah B. Lewis is a registered creative arts therapist. She holds a masters in counselling psychology and a PhD in interdisciplinary studies in applied psychology and creative arts therapies. Her research centres around the use of patient voice in qualitative and mixed methods health research and its role in health related knowledge translation.

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