Patient Experience of Interventional Pain Management. Qualitative Study

Patient Experience of Interventional Pain Management. Qualitative Study

There are quite a few qualitative studies done to find out patients experience of chronic pain. There are no studies on what the patients feel and what thoughts and feelings arise in the patients that are exposed to interventional pain management. This study aims to illuminate how it is to live through an interventional pain management program.

A qualitative interview is performed with patients that have passed through an interventional pain management program. The transcribed interviews are analyzed with qualitative content analysis according to Graneheim and Lundman in order to illuminate the experience, feelings and thoughts arisen among the patients.

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients passed through an interventional pain management program

Exclusion Criteria:

Purposeful sampling will be applied