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A Qualitative Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on a Sample of Patients With Chronic Pain
This qualitative phenomenological study examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of patients living with chronic pain. Patients referred to an intensive interdisciplinary pain management program between June 2020 to June 2021 were asked, “How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect your li...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8995192/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35434298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735221089698 |
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author | Mohamed Ali, Ola Borg Debono, Victoria Anthonypillai, Jennifer Hapidou, Eleni G. |
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description | This qualitative phenomenological study examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of patients living with chronic pain. Patients referred to an intensive interdisciplinary pain management program between June 2020 to June 2021 were asked, “How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect your life?” as part of their interdisciplinary assessment. Ninety patients (50 Veterans, 40 civilians) provided comments to this question, which were independently organized into themes using an inductive approach by 4 researchers. Nine main themes emerged: (1) changed psychological state, (2) minimal to no effect, (3) affected personal life activities, (4) changes in accessing care, (5) changes in work/education situation, (6) changes in family dynamics, (7) experiencing more annoyances, (8) COVID-19 pandemic is a barrier to making positive changes, and (9) got COVID-19. Themes are consistent with topics of interest in light of this ongoing, global stressor. Most commonly reported themes reflected changes in psychological well-being and changes in access to care, highlighting similarities between life with chronic pain and life under the pandemic for this group. |
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spelling | pubmed-89951922022-04-12 A Qualitative Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on a Sample of Patients With Chronic Pain Mohamed Ali, Ola Borg Debono, Victoria Anthonypillai, Jennifer Hapidou, Eleni G. J Patient Exp COVID - Research Article This qualitative phenomenological study examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of patients living with chronic pain. Patients referred to an intensive interdisciplinary pain management program between June 2020 to June 2021 were asked, “How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect your life?” as part of their interdisciplinary assessment. Ninety patients (50 Veterans, 40 civilians) provided comments to this question, which were independently organized into themes using an inductive approach by 4 researchers. Nine main themes emerged: (1) changed psychological state, (2) minimal to no effect, (3) affected personal life activities, (4) changes in accessing care, (5) changes in work/education situation, (6) changes in family dynamics, (7) experiencing more annoyances, (8) COVID-19 pandemic is a barrier to making positive changes, and (9) got COVID-19. Themes are consistent with topics of interest in light of this ongoing, global stressor. Most commonly reported themes reflected changes in psychological well-being and changes in access to care, highlighting similarities between life with chronic pain and life under the pandemic for this group. SAGE Publications 2022-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8995192/ /pubmed/35434298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735221089698 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | COVID - Research Article Mohamed Ali, Ola Borg Debono, Victoria Anthonypillai, Jennifer Hapidou, Eleni G. A Qualitative Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on a Sample of Patients With Chronic Pain |
title | A Qualitative Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on a
Sample of Patients With Chronic Pain |
title_full | A Qualitative Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on a
Sample of Patients With Chronic Pain |
title_fullStr | A Qualitative Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on a
Sample of Patients With Chronic Pain |
title_full_unstemmed | A Qualitative Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on a
Sample of Patients With Chronic Pain |
title_short | A Qualitative Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on a
Sample of Patients With Chronic Pain |
title_sort | qualitative study of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on a
sample of patients with chronic pain |
topic | COVID - Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8995192/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35434298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735221089698 |
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