Lifestyle changes are burdensome with my body broken by pain and obesity: patients' perspectives after pain rehabilitation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the existing evidence regarding the interrelated relationship between pain and obesity, knowledge about patients' perspectives of this relationship is scarce, especially from patients with chronic pain and obesity after completing Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Program (IPRP).

Aims

This qualitative study expands the understanding of patients' perspectives on how chronic pain and obesity influence each other and how the two conditions affect the ability to make lifestyle changes.

Method

A purposive sample of patients with Body Mass Index (BMI) ≥ 30 kg/m² and who had completed an IPRP were recruited for individual semi-structured interviews. The transcribed interviews were analysed using latent content analysis and a pattern of theme

SUBMITTER: Storm E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10599046 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature