The potential benefits of applying a narrative analytic approach for understanding the experience of fibromyalgia: a review

Abstract

The review concludes by emphasizing that narrative analysis is a valuable method which offers the potential for uncovering novel insights about the illness experience for these individuals.

Similarities and differences in the experience of fatigue among people living with fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, ankylosing spondylitis and stroke

“…Acknowledgement from significant others is also interpreted as being crucial in the coping process; in association with this, the characteristic of invisibility may have a restraining effect (McMahon et al . , Eilertsen et al . ).…”

“…Similar kinds of influencing factors on fatigue have also been found in previous studies (McMahon et al . , Eilertsen et al . ).…”

“…, McMahon et al . ). Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune, inflammatory, demyelinating illness of the central nervous system with a variable course and uncertain prognosis.…”

Narrative in nursing research: an overview of three approaches

“…In nursing contexts this approach generally involves interviewing a small number of participants who share a lived experience for example; people living with the experience of long‐term illness (McMahon et al . ).…”

“…The interpersonal, positional and ideological explorations in Murray's Framework acknowledge the influence of dialogical and societal forces on interview context and story creation; however, narrative sense making is viewed as occurring in the consciousness of the individual. In nursing contexts this approach generally involves interviewing a small number of participants who share a lived experience for example; people living with the experience of long-term illness (McMahon et al 2012).…”