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âIt feels like someone is hammering my feetâ: Understanding pain and its management from the perspective of people with Multiple Sclerosis
Background:
Pain affects around 63% of people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS). Biomedical treatments demonstrate limited efficacy. More research is needed to understand pain from the individualâs perspective in order to better inform a patient-centred approach that improves engagement, self-management and outcome.
Objective:
The objective of this paper is to explore pwMSâ experience and responses to pain, and their perspectives on pain management.
Methods:
Twenty-five in-depth, semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted. Interviews were audiotaped, transcribed and analysed using an inductive thematic analysis approach with elements of grounded theory.
Results:
Key themes included vivid descriptions of pain and beliefs that pain is unpredictable, a sign of damage and may worsen. Anger was a common emotional response. Two dominant pain management themes emerged: one related to pain reduction and another to acceptance. Those focusing on pain reduction appeared to engage in cycles in which they struggled with symptoms and experienced continued distress.
Conclusion:
Findings identify pain-related beliefs, emotional reactions and disparate pain-management attitudes. All may influence pwMSâ responses to pain and what they ask of their clinicians. Uncovering pwMSâ personal beliefs about pain, and introducing a broader biopsychosocial understanding of pain in the clinical context, may provide opportunities to rectify potentially unhelpful management choices and enhance pain acceptance
Aplicação da espectroscopia de reflectùncia difusa na quantificação dos constituintes de bauxita e de minério de ferro
Multiple sclerosis and the TNFRSF1A R92Q mutation: clinical characteristics of 21 cases.
Chemical composition and stress dependence of the elastic properties of Îș-(Fe,Mn)3AlC thin films
Chemical effects of heavy metals on the hydration of calcium sulphoaluminate 4CaO·3Al2O3·SO3
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