Parents' experience when their child has chronic abdominal pain: a qualitative study in Norway.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:Functional abdominal pain occurs frequently in children and adolescents. It is an exclusion diagnosis; somatic diseases have to be ruled out. However little explanation is given for why the child is experiencing pain. The aim was to explore the experiences of parents of children with chronic abdominal pain discharged from hospital without a somatic explanation. DESIGN:The study has a qualitative design. The open questions concerned pain experiences and management. Interviews were conducted at the hospital, at the parents' workplace or in their homes, audiotape recorded and transcribed. A descriptive content analysis was used to analyse the transcribed text. SETTING:Parents of children referred from general practice located in urban and rural areas in two municipals in Norway. PAR

SUBMITTER: Brodwall A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5950638 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature