Qualitative interview study exploring the patient experience of living with axial spondyloarthritis and fatigue: difficult, demanding and draining.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore patients' lived experiences of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and fatigue.

Design

Interpretative phenomenological analysis (lived experience) was used as the study design. Analysis drew together codes with similar meaning to create superordinate and subordinate themes.

Setting

Rheumatology departments in three National Health Service Foundation Trusts in the north, midlands and south of England.

Participants

A purposive sample of seventeen axSpA patients were recruited. The age range was 22-72 years (median age 46), nine were male and eight, female.

Results

A central concept of achieving balance was identified as the active process of integrating axSpA symptoms and fatigue into daily life, working with and not against their conditio

SUBMITTER: Pearson NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8883261 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature