Understanding Chronic Pain in NHS Grampian

Understanding Chronic Pain - A Qualitative Study Exploring Patient and Healthcare Professionals Experience With Chronic Pain Management in Primary Care

Investigators will explore healthcare professionals and patients' experience in chronic pain management within primary care. Investigators will use this information to develop a decision aid tool tool which patients with chronic pain could use to help them make an informed decision during a consultation with their healthcare professionals.

Inclusion Criteria:

• above 18 years old,
• suffering from non-malignant chronic pain (defined as pain lasting for more than three months) and,
• being managed entirely within a primary care setting.

Exclusion Criteria:

• are not fluent in the English language,
• have concomitant severe mental health problems or terminal illness,
• have a known alcohol or drug addiction, and
• suffer from pain caused by cancer or other malignancy.