PAINSTORIES - Exploring the temporal developments in the challenges, barriers, and self-management needs of adolescents with longstanding knee pain: A qualitative, retrospective interview study with young adults experiencing knee pain since adolescence

Bidragets oversatte titel: SMERTEHISTORIER - En uforskning af hvordan unge med kæsmerters udfordringer, barrierer og behov i forbindelse med egenomsorg forandres over tid. : Et kvalitativt studie baseret på retrospektive forskningsinterviews med unge voksne der er opvoksede med knæsmerter.

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Abstract

Patient education is essential to enable rehabilitation and self-management of longstanding knee pain in adolescents. Currently, a lack of insights into the socio-cognitive processes governing adolescents’ self-management remains an obstacle for enhancing treatment efficacy. This study developed a conceptual model for integrating adolescents’ challenges and barriers into future treatments.
We conducted semi-structured retrospective interviews with 14 young adults (age 21-25 years) with knee pain since adolescence (9 years mean duration). Temporal developments in participants’ knee pain was captured through a memorization exercise. Data was analyzed via the General Inductive Approach. Themes were organized into a matrix, extracting a conceptual model, which was tested with eight new participants.
The analysis identified seven themes. Further interpretation, via the matrix, organized these within a four-stage trajectory of; gaining awareness, knowledgeability, contextual application and reconceptualization, each with different challenges and dilemmas, participants had to overcome to progress their self-management. Testing the conceptual model, confirmed stages and highlighted acceptance as key to overcoming barriers.
The study described adolescents’ integration of self-management as proximal and inquiry-based, with acceptance, driving increasingly complex management behaviors. We hypothesize future interventions may benefit from exploring supporting adolescents’ inquiries into their knee pain at different stages of the trajectory.
Bidragets oversatte titelSMERTEHISTORIER - En uforskning af hvordan unge med kæsmerters udfordringer, barrierer og behov i forbindelse med egenomsorg forandres over tid. : Et kvalitativt studie baseret på retrospektive forskningsinterviews med unge voksne der er opvoksede med knæsmerter.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Pain
Vol/bind23
Udgave nummer4
Sider (fra-til)577-594
Antal sider18
ISSN1526-5900
DOI
StatusUdgivet - apr. 2022

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