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A qualitative evidence synthesis using meta-ethnography to understand the experience of living with osteoarthritis pain
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Toye, F., Seers, K. and Barker, K. L. (2022) A qualitative evidence synthesis using meta-ethnography to understand the experience of living with osteoarthritis pain. Pain, 163 (12). e1169-e1183. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002660 ISSN 0304-3959.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002660
Abstract
Osteoarthritis pain affects the lives of a large number of people around the world. Understanding other people's experience is integral to effective care and qualitative research can have an important part to pay in education and good clinical practice. We aimed to systematically search for, identify, and synthesise qualitative research exploring the experience of living with osteoarthritis in order to incorporate this knowledge into an educational resource. We comprehensively searched four bibliographic databases and used the methods of meta-ethnography to synthesise qualitative research findings. We screened 10123 titles, 548 abstracts and 139 full texts. We included findings from 118 reports (105 unique samples) of at least 2534 adults living with osteoarthritis around the world. We developed 7 themes from more than 600 findings: it is part of my life’s tapestry; (yet) it is consuming me; it constrains my body and my occupations; I am becoming separated yet dependent; I accept, but I will not let it define me; (yet) this makes me feel less than the person I was. Our findings highlight the profound impact that osteoarthritis can have on people’s lives and the struggle to hold onto a sense of self. They indicate that recognising these losses, and taking osteoarthritis seriously, is an integral part of effective healthcare. This finding may be transferable beyond this condition.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Warwick Research in Nursing |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Osteoarthritis -- Patients, Chronic pain -- Psychological aspects, Chronically ill -- Care | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Pain | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0304-3959 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 163 | ||||||||
| Number: | 12 | ||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 30 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | e1169-e1183 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002660 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | © 2022 International Association for the Study of Pain | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 April 2022 | ||||||||
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