Perseverance by older people in their management of chronic pain: A qualitative study

Pain Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 271-280

  Sofaer Bennett, Beatrice ^a   Holloway, Immy ^b   Moore, Ann ^a   Lamberty, John ^c   Thorp, Tom ^c   O'Dwyer, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Older people; Perseverance; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TAPE RECORDER; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33947401385     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2007.00297.x     Document Type: Article

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