Lived experience of chronic pain and fibromyalgia: Women's stories from daily life

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 741-761

  Råheim, Målfrid ^a   Håland, Wenche ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Fibromyalgia; Hermeneutic phenomenology; Lived experience; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; POWERLESSNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PAIN; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 33744932225     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732306288521     Document Type: Article

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