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Experiences of pain and associations between pain, disease severity and individual quality of life in people with motor neuron diseases
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- Åkerblom, Ylva, 1967- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för neurovetenskap
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- Åsenlöf, Pernilla, 1967- (thesis advisor)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för neurovetenskap,Vårdvetenskap
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- Zetterberg, Lena, 1961- (thesis advisor)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för neurovetenskap
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- Uppsala, 2019
- English 48 s.
- Licentiate thesis (other academic/artistic)
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- Many people with the incurable and often times fatal motor neuron diseases have pain, but there is lack of knowledge about people’s experiences of living with pain. Further, the correlation between pain and their quality of life is not well understood, and previous studies have not used individual quality of life, namely that people with their own words express what quality of life is. The aim of these studies was to explore the experiences of pain and the association between pain and quality of life in people with MND.Methods: Study I was explorative about the individual experience of pain, while study II was correlational between pain, pain severity, disease severity and IQOL. Study I was qualitative, whereas study II used both qualitative and quantitative analysis.Results and conclusions: People with motor neuron diseases experienced pain to have multiple characteristics and impact. However, the results emphasise that the individual experienced some pain characteristics as difficult and that pain could worsen functions that were already affected by the disease. The experience was also that it could be challenging to manage pain. However, the symptom of pain could pass unnoticed in contacts with healthcare professionals (study I). The three most important areas for individual quality of life in both participants with and without pain were: Social relations, followed by Activities for amusement and relaxations, and Being in the outdoor environment. Individual quality of life was noticed to be good regardless of pain. Pain and pain severity were not found to be associated with satisfaction of individual quality of life in patients with motor neuron diseases, neither was disease severity. The results support previous findings, that strong associations between symptoms of MND and IQoL are not obvious. However, this does not infer that pain in people with MNDs should be neglected and undertreated. On the contrary, it seems to be important for healthcare to pay more attention to pain in people with motor neuron diseases and that pain continuously is measured, individually treated and followed. Regardless of whether persons with MND have pain or not, the results point to the importance of healthcare professionals providing support to not only the patient but also the patient’s family and friends, as well as assisting in various forms of relaxing activities and possibility of being in the outdoor environment.
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- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- motor neuron disease
- pain
- quality of life
- individual quality of life
- qualitative content analysis
- pain severity
- disease severity
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