Journal article
Living a Life Full of Pain: Older Pain Clinic Patients' Experience of Living With Chronic Low Back Pain
Qualitative health research, Vol.28(9), pp.1434-1448
07/01/2018
DOI: 10.1177/1049732318765712
PMID: 29598770
Abstract
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is older adults' most common pain complaint and is associated with many physical and psychosocial consequences, which have been quantitatively examined. However, little research has qualitatively examined the experience itself of CLBP in later life. Study objective was to understand older adults' lived CLBP experience. Guided by van Manen's phenomenological method, 21 pain clinic patients aged 66 to 83 completed semistructured interviews. Under the main theme living a life full of pain, results are reflected in four existential subthemes: (a) Corporeality: The pain is relentless and constantly monitored, (b) Temporality: To live with pain is to live by pacing day and night, (c) Relationality: Pain creates limits that can be tested or obeyed, and (d) Spatiality: Manipulating the space around me to accommodate the pain. Findings improve understanding of the patient experience of late life CLBP and highlights the importance of empathy and patient-centeredness when treating older adults.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Living a Life Full of Pain: Older Pain Clinic Patients' Experience of Living With Chronic Low Back Pain
- Creators
- Meredith Stensland - University of IowaSara Sanders - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Qualitative health research, Vol.28(9), pp.1434-1448
- Publisher
- Sage
- DOI
- 10.1177/1049732318765712
- PMID
- 29598770
- ISSN
- 1049-7323
- eISSN
- 1552-7557
- Number of pages
- 15
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Liberal Arts and Science Admin; School of Social Work
- Record Identifier
- 9984307253502771
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