Parents' experiences of pain and discomfort in people with learning disabilities

British Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 84-90

  Clarke, Zara Jane ^a,b   Thompson, Andrew R ^a   Buchan, Linda ^b   Combes, Helen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discomfort; Intellectual disabilities; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Pain; Parents; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

EID: 43649101174     PISSN: 13544187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3156.2007.00467.x     Document Type: Article

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