"I Can't Be What I Want to Be": Children's Narratives of Chronic Pain Experiences and Treatment Outcomes

Pain Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1018-1034

  Meldrum, Marcia L ^a   Tsao, Jennie C I ^b   Zeltzer, Lonnie K ^b  

^a Department of History ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functioning; Narrative medicine; Pediatric pain

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NARRATIVE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NARRATION; PAIN; PAIN CLINICS; PARENTS; PATIENT SELECTION; PEER GROUP; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349628646     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2009.00650.x     Document Type: Article

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