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| Title |
How school nurses experience and understand everyday pain among adolescents
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| Published in |
BMC Nursing, September 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12912-017-0247-x |
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| Authors |
Magnhild Høie, Kristin Haraldstad, Gudrun Rohde, Liv Fegran, Thomas Westergren, Sølvi Helseth, Åshild Slettebø, Berit Johannessen |
| Abstract |
Pain problems are a rapidly growing health problem found among both children and adolescent, and about 15-30% have reported chronic pain problems. School nurses in Norway meet adolescents with various ailments, including pain. Yet research on how school nurses perceive the pain experienced by adolescents is limited. The aim of the present study was to explore how school nurses explain and experience the everyday pain of adolescents. A qualitative study with an explorative design comprising five focus group interviews. Each group consisted of three to five school nurses. Seventeen female school nurses in five junior high schools in Norway, age range 29-65 years participated. To cover the issues a semi structured interview guide was used. The transcribed text was analysed with qualitative content analysis. The experience of school nurses with adolescents' pain in everyday life is mainly that pain is a social, physical, and psychological phenomenon. School nurses experienced that everyday pain is reflecting: 1) high expectations, 2) difficult relationships and traumatic experiences and 3) an unhealthy lifestyle. School nurses have ambivalent attitudes to medicalisation of pain. Despite of a biopsychosocial understanding of pain, the school nurses maintained referral practice of medical examinations, with the results that many adolescents became shuttlecocks in the health system. Although the school nurses´ were sceptical of the tendency towards medicalization in society, it appears that they actually help maintain this tendency. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 58 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 9% |
| Researcher | 4 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 11 | 19% |
| Unknown | 23 | 40% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Nursing and Health Professions | 13 | 22% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 7% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 8 | 14% |
| Unknown | 24 | 41% |
Attention Score in Context
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