Objectives
Central themes for investigation from the interviews of women with prior chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain are:
- How do the women experience themselves as ill and healthy?
- How do they experiences their recovery processes?
- What are they doing in order to get better/stay healthy?
Outcomes
Collection of data ongoing.
Background
Previous studies of women's health have shown that for some women chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain may disappear. To learn from the experiences of these women about their processes towards a better health is essential for broadening the existing knowledge in this field and to raise ideas to improve non-pharmacological approaches like primary health care physiotherapy. Thus, experience and recovery are key concepts in this study. Experience is understood as a relational and cultural phenomenon. Recovery is linked to the understanding of disease and health, and the recovery is about to "get out of " an illness situation to becoming well or feeling well.
Financing
Norwegian Fund for Post-Graduate Training in Physiotherapy.
Cooperation
Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet
Start - Finish
01 08 2010 - 31 07 2014