Qualitative pain classification in hospice and pain therapy unit.
In this study, we investigated patient's meaning attribution to pain in hospice and pain therapy unit, using a qualitative approach: narrative-based medicine. The data presented here were related to patients (n = 17) hospitalized in Rimini Hospice (Italy). These data were compared to those of patients (n = 21) with noncancer pain (control sample). The interviews were then analyzed according to the technique of thematic narrative analysis. The results of our research identified a differential process in pain processing in relationship to the meaning that the patient attributed to pain. The thematic analysis of the interviews allowed the inductive construction of a specific network of pain dimensions, which were summarized in "the pain chronogram."
Pain Therapy and Palliative Care Unit-Hospice, Infermi Hospital, Rimini, Italy.
William
W
Raffaeli
Jessica
J
Andruccioli
Stefania
S
Florindi
Isabella
I
Ferioli
Maria Cristina
MC
Monterubbianesi
Donatella
D
Sarti
Francesca
F
Castellani
Guido
G
Giarelli
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006738:Hospices / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D033262:Narration; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D018710:Pain Clinics; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000523:psychology*