- Title
- Qualitative insights into the experience of pain in older Australian women with arthritis
- Creator
- de Luca, Katie; Parkinson, Lynne; Hunter, Sharyn; Byles, Julie Ellen
- Relation
- ARC.CE170100005 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE170100005
- Relation
- Australasian Journal on Ageing Vol. 37, Issue 3, p. 210-216
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajag.12557
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Objective: To explore qualitative insights into the pain experience of older women with quantitatively derived pain profiles. Methods: The sequential mixed methods design involved applying quantitative pain profiles, derived from an earlier latent class analysis, to qualitative comments by a sample of older Australian women with arthritis. Data from a substudy of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, mid-aged cohort, born 1946-1951, were used. Inductive content analysis was conducted to explore qualitative insights into the experience of pain. Results: The average age of women was 64.6 years (±1.4). Within each derived pain profile, themes generated from the qualitative comments of women were concordant with the profile descriptors: 'I manage my pain' for the uni-dimensional, mild pain profile (comments from 56 women); 'I live with pain every day' and 'I rely on medication regularly' for the moderate multidimensional pain profile (comments from 39 women); and 'multiple pains', 'I suffer with pain' and 'I am unable and adjust' for the severe multidimensional pain profile (comments from 31 women). Conclusion: Women with different pain profiles used different language and strategies in managing their pain experience, information which can guide clinicians to provide more tailored support for self-management and care of arthritis pain.
- Subject
- aging; arthritis; pain; qualitative research; women’s health
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1407624
- Identifier
- uon:35751
- Identifier
- ISSN:1440-6381
- Rights
- This is the peer reviewed version of above article, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/acfi.12267. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
- Language
- eng
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