title: Insights into Pain: A Review of Qualitative Research.
abstract: Qualitative research exposes and explores important aspects of the pain experience that are inaccessible to other approaches.Qualitative work adopts a different epistemological and ontological perspective to quantitative work.Qualitative research is not well established in the field of pain, but is growing.More interpretative engagement with qualitative data is required.
authors.affiliation: Consultant Macmillan Clinical Psychologist, Pain Clinic, Royal United Hospital, Bath.
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Osborn
authors.affiliation: Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Bath and Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rodham