A mega-ethnography of eleven qualitative evidence syntheses exploring the experience of living with chronic non-malignant pain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Each year over five million people develop chronic non-malignant pain and can experience healthcare as an adversarial struggle. The aims of this study were: (1) to bring together qualitative evidence syntheses that explore patients' experience of living with chronic non-malignant pain and develop conceptual understanding of what it is like to live with chronic non-malignant pain for improved healthcare; (2) to undertake the first mega-ethnography of qualitative evidence syntheses using the methods of meta-ethnography.

Methods

We used the seven stages of meta-ethnography refined for large studies. The innovation of mega-ethnography is to use conceptual findings from qualitative evidence syntheses as primary data. We searched 7 bibliographic databases from inception

SUBMITTER: Toye F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5540410 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature