The legitimacy of pain according to sufferers.

ABSTRACT: Pain is an unpleasant experience that we will all experience in some form over the course of our lives, with chronic pain affecting a significant proportion of the global population. Given these circumstances, this study investigates whether pain is a legitimated phenomenon and considers the processes involved in the creation of such a status. This is an exploratory investigation based on semi-structured interviews with people suffering from chronic pain as a consequence of physical, psychological, emotional, or social circumstances. Our principal objective is to explore the fundamental elements of legitimacy and the processes that bring it into being-i.e., to understand how it is socially constructed. The main finding, however, is that many sufferers of chronic physical, psychiatric/psych

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Rodriguez MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10651017 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature