Adolescents' experiences of Help Overcoming Pain Early-A school based person-centred intervention for adolescents with chronic pain.

ABSTRACT: To illuminate adolescents' experiences of Help Overcoming Pain Early (HOPE), a person-centred intervention delivered in a school setting by school nurses. Twenty-one adolescents with chronic pain recruited from secondary school, who had completed the HOPE intervention, were included in the interview study. The HOPE intervention was built on person-centred ethics and consisted of four meetings between school nurses and adolescents on the subject of stress and pain management. A qualitative method using content analysis with an inductive approach was employed. In the interviews, the adolescents describe how they reclaim their lives with the help of HOPE. They use different strategies and parts of the intervention to move on with their lives. A trustful relationship, as that with the school n

SUBMITTER: Wallbing U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10749401 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature