Women's experiences of navigating chronic pain within the context of living with an episodic disability.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Of the 6.2 million Canadians aged 15 years or older who live with disability, 61% have disabilities that are not static or continuous. These dynamic conditions are known as episodic disabilities and many disproportionately experienced by women. Chronic pain is also a common feature associated with many episodic disabilities. The purpose of this article is to explore the experience of chronic pain for women living with episodic disabilities.

Methods

This qualitative study draws on the tenets of interpretive description. Thirty women, with one or more episodic disabilities and chronic pain, participated in a semi-structured interview and answered questions about their chronic pain levels, using Von Korff et al.'s graded chronic pain scale.

Results

Women exper

SUBMITTER: Campbell KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9218444 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature