Exploring Adolescents' Understanding, Experiences and Beliefs About Pain: A Qualitative Study

Isabelle Bogard, Julie Ayre, Jenna Smith, Joshua W. Pate, Andrew Sortwell, Jonah Gorringe, Georgia Gordon, Steven J. Kamper, Tie P. Yamato · 2024

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Isabelle Bogard and co-authors explored how Australian teens understand pain, in this 2024 study. False beliefs about pain are common in the public, and school is a good place to correct them. The team interviewed 25 students in grades seven to ten.

Three themes emerged. Teens split physical and mental pain into distinct kinds. They saw mood and setting as shaping how physical pain feels and how people react. Pain mattered most to them when it blocked valued activities. Some beliefs clashed with current pain science. The authors suggest school pain programs that use discussion and reflection on lived experience.

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CREATORIsabelle Bogard, Julie Ayre, Jenna Smith, Joshua W. Pate, Andrew Sortwell, Jonah Gorringe, Georgia Gordon, Steven J. Kamper, Tie P. Yamato
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE44 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11666834

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