Open AccessQualitative research on pain
Author(s) -
Laura Mitchell,
Raymond MacDonald
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
current opinion in supportive and palliative care
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1751-4266
pISSN - 1751-4258
DOI - 10.1097/spc.0b013e32832b7de2
Subject(s) - biopsychosocial model , qualitative research , psychosocial , medicine , context (archaeology) , medline , health care , chronic pain , nursing , physical therapy , psychiatry , paleontology , social science , sociology , political science , law , economics , biology , economic growth
This review brings together developments over the past year in pain research using qualitative methodologies. In line with the goals of the current biopsychosocial model of pain, such a research framework offers in-depth understanding of the experience of pain within its cultural, familial and socioeconomic environmental context.