2020
DOI: 10.1186/s12891-020-3055-5
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“My life is under control with these medications”: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of managing chronic pain with opioids

Abstract: Background: The use of opioids to relieve chronic pain has increased during the last decades, but experiences of chronic opioid therapy (COT) (> 90 days) point at risks and loss of beneficial effects. Still, some patients report benefits from opioid medication, such as being able to stay at work. Guidelines for opioid use in chronic pain do not consider the individual experience of COT, including benefits and risks, making the first person perspective an important scientific component to explore. The aim of th… Show more

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“…In addition, the participants felt stigmatized because of the treatment with opioids. Ljungvall et al 26 described how participants experienced being stigmatized because of their repeated contacts with medical care workers, who see them as drug‐seeking behaviours. However, in our study, the participants experienced this stigmatization by relatives and friends who expressed many concerns and prejudices about opioids.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In addition, the participants felt stigmatized because of the treatment with opioids. Ljungvall et al 26 described how participants experienced being stigmatized because of their repeated contacts with medical care workers, who see them as drug‐seeking behaviours. However, in our study, the participants experienced this stigmatization by relatives and friends who expressed many concerns and prejudices about opioids.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…25 Fear of addiction might be an important reason why CP is often undertreated. 16 Recent literature 18,[26][27][28] has explored the experience of adults using prescription opioids to manage CNCP, concluding that there were many negative aspects to using opioids daily, in most cases these were outweighed by the positive effects, and most of the negative aspects were socioculturally induced rather than caused by the drug itself. However, these studies have been carried out in countries such as the United States or Canada, where the trend of opioid use has been accompanied by an increase in reported opioid abuse and opioid-related death 29 which is a different situation compared to Spain.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Chronic pain is one of the most disease-burdening conditions in the world [ 3 , 4 ], which is estimated to affect 1 in 5 adults of the world’s general population [ 5 ]. Opioids are currently the preferred method of treatment, trusted by physicians to manage chronic pain [ 6 ]. However, although opioids are readily attainable and a preferred method of treatment, there is excessive use of opioids globally as more people access opioid prescriptions for chronic pain management [ 7 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Assim, à medida que a investigação qualitativa foi assumindo um maior destaque, verificou-se também uma diversidade de métodos de análise utilizados, tais como: a análise de conteúdo (e.g., Christensen, 2018;Pan et al, 2018;), a grounded theory (e.g., Wójcik & Rzeńca, 2021;Bjereld, 2018), a análise fenomenológica interpretativa (e.g., Ljungvall et al, 2020;Smith & Osborn, 2007), entre outras. No entanto, comparativamente a estes métodos, a análise narrativa tem sido menos utilizada, identificando-se um menor número de estudos que a ela recorre.…”
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