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"It has changed my whole life"
— the systemic implications of chronic low back pain among older adults | | Author(s) | Meredith L Stensland, Sara Sanders |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 61, no 2, February-March 2018 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, February-March 2018 |
| Pages | pp 129-150 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Musculoskeletal diseases ; Chronic illness ; Pain ; Quality of life ; Attitude. |
| Annotation | Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is the most common pain complaint among older adults. Despite its prevalence very little research has qualitatively examined the diverse consequences of living with CLBP in later life. As part of a larger study aiming to understand the experience of CLBP among older adults, the objective of this paper was to understand how older adults experience CLBP and its impacts on their functioning. Guided by van Manen's phenomenological method, 23 semi-structured interviews with 21 pain clinic patients aged 66-83 were conducted. Through an iterative process assisted by NVivo 11 software, researchers used line-by-line thematic coding to identify main impacts of CLBP. Under the main theme `It has changed my whole life', results were reflected in six subthemes: (a) Pain damages sense of self; (b) trapped in a body that doesn't work anymore; (c) me, my partner and my pain; (d) pain complicates family relationships; (e) painfully employed; and (f) feeling socially and recreationally repressed. Overall study aims were to improve understanding of older pain clinic patients' experience of living with debilitating CLBP and to offer direction for social work intervention in the context of multidisciplinary pain management. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180420204 A |
| Classmark | CL: CI: CT7: F:59: DP |
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