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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The meaning of chronic pain

Wade, Barbara Louise 11 1900 (has links)
Chronic pain sufferers are frequently misunderstood and stigmatised. The aim of this investigation was to provide a description of the lifewor1d of people with chronic low back pain, using the phenomenological method. Themes which emerged were that the persistent nature of chronic pain makes it particularly difficult to endure, arousing a profound fear of the future. It causes a disruption in the relationship between the person and the body, in which the person is forced to function within the constraints of pain. Sufferers are unable to fulfil social roles as expected and are forced to revise their goals and activities. The distress of their experience is mediated by the ability to make sense of their condition, finding meaning in the pain itself. The study highlights the value of the phenomenological method in health psychology. Recommendations are made which may be of benefit to people with chronic pain and their families. / Psychology / M. Sc. (Psychology)
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The effect of aquatic therapy on psychological aspects of pain in arthritic patients

Kapelus, Stacey 10 February 2014 (has links)
M.A. (Psychology) / Numerous amounts ofliterature has confirmed the positive correlation that exists between exercise and psychological well-being. With the increased interest in the associated psychological factors ofpain, the present study was undertaken to investigate the effects of chronic pain on rheumatoid arthritic and osteoarthritic patients, with the overall aim of reducing, and alleviating these factors. The psychological factors studied were depression, effects ofthe impact ofarthritis, for example, on the independent, physical and psychosocial aspects oftheir lives, as well as coping. It was hypothesized that by engaging in an aquatic exercise program there would be a reduction/alleviation ofpain, which in tum would demonstrate a reduction in the psychological components ofpain. Evidence was found to support the hypothesis, due to the fact that, after exposure to the aquatic therapy program, subjects demonstrated a reduction in pain followed by a reduction in depression, slight improvement in coping with their arthritis, and the impact of arthritis was partially alleviated. The need for a larger sample group, as well a longer period of investigation will be needed for future research.
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Le syndrome douloureux chronique: étude psychologique

Jurfest, Anita January 1978 (has links)
Doctorat en sciences psychologiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Brief Imagery Training : Effects on Psychological, Physiological and Neuroendocrinological Measures of Stress and Pain

Osborne, Connie M. Brajkovich (Connie Marie Brajkovich) 08 1900 (has links)
The present study investigated the influence of a brief, intensive biofeedback-assisted imagery training regimen on psychological, physiological and neuroendocrinological measures of pain and stress in injury related chronic pain patients. The subjects were 36 patients (myelography examcandidates) who were assigned to the imagery or wait-list control group by order of referral presentation and to formulate equivalent groups.
65

Authenticating & repairing personhood : the experiences of opioid dependent back pain sufferers

Gardner, Janet Rose January 2003 (has links)
Abstract not available
66

A experiência da paliação: um olhar a partir do modo próprio de subjetivar-se diante do adoecer

Margarida Maria Florêncio Dantas 28 January 2015 (has links)
O presente trabalho traz uma reflexão a respeito do lidar com a iminência da morte diante de um adoecimento, na perspectiva das pessoas que escolheram a paliação como forma de tratamento. Para tanto, o objetivo desta pesquisa é a compreensão de como um sujeito gravemente doente, sem possibilidade de cura, experiencía a paliação, como possibilidade de vivenciar sua enfermidade. Assim, o estudo focaliza os sentidos atribuídos à paliação, o processo de escolha deste tratamento e os impactos desta escolha. Foram entrevistados cinco sujeitos que optaram pela paliação como modo de tratamento diante de um diagnóstico de impossibilidade de cura de suas doenças. Para a produção dos dados da pesquisa, foram utilizadas as observações da pesquisadora registradas em um Diário de Campo e a escuta dos sujeitos doentes, através de uma entrevista semidirigida gravada e transcrita literalmente. A análise das narrativas e deste diário se deu a partir de uma análise descritiva de inspiração foucaultiana. Com relação aos resultados, é possível dizer que cada sujeito que escolheu a paliação, o fez diante do quadro clínico estabelecido. Assim, eles se ocuparam consigo, olharam para si, para suas necessidades, expectativas, fazendo da paliação um estilo de vida. Estes pacientes consideraram a consciência de sua finitude, em meio ao gerenciamento da morte pela equipe de saúde, e se constituíram como sujeito de seus atos, considerando suas prioridades: a família, o trabalho, o lazer e a qualidade de vida. O que os fez lidar com segurança e firmeza com os impactos desta escolha, a negação dos familiares com relação a ela, por exemplo. Diante disso, conclui-se que apesar de um gerenciamento da equipe de saúde em favor da paliação, vendo-a como a boa morte, é possível o sujeito doente realizar esta escolha a partir do seu modo próprio de subjetivar-se diante do adoecer, o que faz esta escolha ter um significado singular, particular, para o sujeito que a considera.
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A Multifaceted Treatment for Myofascial-Pain Dysfunction: A Comparison of Treatment Components

Waid, Lewis R. (Lewis Randolph) 08 1900 (has links)
This study compared the clinical effectiveness of cognitively oriented stress-coping training with and without biofeedback training to biofeedback training only in the treatment of myofascial pain dysfunction (MPDS). These groups were also compared to a fourth treatment consisting of pseudo-biofeedback plus stress-coping training. Subjects were 32 adults suffering from MPDS who had failed to previously profit from other treatments. Subjects averaged 33.5 years of age and 58.7 months of myofascial pain. Treatement consisted of 10 individual sessions over a five-week period. Stress-coping training was designed to teach subjects to monitor their congitive responses to stress-eliciting situations and to learn cognitive coping skills. Biofeedback training was designed to provide relaxation skills that would enable subjects to reduce masseter muscle tension (EMG). Subjects receiving pseudo-biofeedback training did not receive veridical feedback training.
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The effect of aquatic therapy for rheumatoid and osteo arthritic sufferers

Van Heerden, Carlette 14 August 2012 (has links)
M.A. / As compared with psychoanalytic and other psychotherapies, behaviour therapy appears to have three distinct advantages. First of all, the treatment approach is precise. The target behaviours to be modified are specified, the methods to be used are clearly delineated, and the results can be readily evaluated (Marks, 1982). Second, the use of explicit learning principles is a sound basis for effective interventions as a result of their demonstrated scientific validity (Kazdin & Wilson, 1978). Third, the economy of time and costs is quite good. Not surprisingly, then, the overall outcomes achieved with behaviour therapy compare favourably with those of other approaches (Smith, Glass & Miller, 1980). Behaviour therapy usually achieves results in a short period of time because it is generally directed to specific symptoms, leading to faster relief of an individual's distress and to lower financial costs. In addition, more people can be treated by a given therapist.
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A experiência da paliação: um olhar a partir do modo próprio de subjetivar-se diante do adoecer

Dantas, Margarida Maria Florêncio 28 January 2015 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:08:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 margarida_maria_florencio_dantas.pdf: 490570 bytes, checksum: b1f4c5661387baa4bc4812793bd76819 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-01-28 / The present work brings a reflection about the deal with the imminence of death before an illness, in the perspective of the people who chose the form of palliation treatment. To that end, the objective of this research is to understand how a subject seriously ill, without possibility of cure, palliation, experiencía as a possibility to experience their illness. Thus, the study focuses on the meanings assigned to palliation, the process of choosing this treatment and the impact of this choice. Five subjects who were interviewed opted for palliation for treatment before a diagnosis of impossibility of curing their illnesses. For the production of research data, the researcher's observations were recorded in a field journal and listening to the sick subjects, through a semidirected interview recorded and transcribed verbatim. The analysis of the narratives and this journal came from a descriptive analysis of inspiration s Foucault. With respect to the results, it is possible to say that every guy who chose the alleviation, made before the established clinical picture. Thus, they occupied with you, look at you, for your needs, expectations, making alleviation a lifestyle. These patients considered the conscience of his finitude, amid the management of death by the health team, and constituted as subject of their actions, considering its priorities: family, work, leisure and quality of life. What made them deal safely and securely with the impacts of this choice, the negation of the relatives towards her, for example. Given this, it is concluded that despite a health team management in favor of palliation, seeing her as the good death, it is possible the subject ill make this choice from its own mode of subjects to subjetive before falling ill, which makes this choice have a singular meaning, particularly, to the guy who considers. / O presente trabalho traz uma reflexão a respeito do lidar com a iminência da morte diante de um adoecimento, na perspectiva das pessoas que escolheram a paliação como forma de tratamento. Para tanto, o objetivo desta pesquisa é a compreensão de como um sujeito gravemente doente, sem possibilidade de cura, experiencía a paliação, como possibilidade de vivenciar sua enfermidade. Assim, o estudo focaliza os sentidos atribuídos à paliação, o processo de escolha deste tratamento e os impactos desta escolha. Foram entrevistados cinco sujeitos que optaram pela paliação como modo de tratamento diante de um diagnóstico de impossibilidade de cura de suas doenças. Para a produção dos dados da pesquisa, foram utilizadas as observações da pesquisadora registradas em um Diário de Campo e a escuta dos sujeitos doentes, através de uma entrevista semidirigida gravada e transcrita literalmente. A análise das narrativas e deste diário se deu a partir de uma análise descritiva de inspiração foucaultiana. Com relação aos resultados, é possível dizer que cada sujeito que escolheu a paliação, o fez diante do quadro clínico estabelecido. Assim, eles se ocuparam consigo, olharam para si, para suas necessidades, expectativas, fazendo da paliação um estilo de vida. Estes pacientes consideraram a consciência de sua finitude, em meio ao gerenciamento da morte pela equipe de saúde, e se constituíram como sujeito de seus atos, considerando suas prioridades: a família, o trabalho, o lazer e a qualidade de vida. O que os fez lidar com segurança e firmeza com os impactos desta escolha, a negação dos familiares com relação a ela, por exemplo. Diante disso, conclui-se que apesar de um gerenciamento da equipe de saúde em favor da paliação, vendo-a como a boa morte, é possível o sujeito doente realizar esta escolha a partir do seu modo próprio de subjetivar-se diante do adoecer, o que faz esta escolha ter um significado singular, particular, para o sujeito que a considera.
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A dor crônica: experiência de pacientes em tratamento de fibromialgia.

Cordeiro, Vanessa Nazário 09 July 2018 (has links)
Submitted by Biblioteca Central (biblioteca@unicap.br) on 2018-08-15T18:51:28Z No. of bitstreams: 2 vanessa_nazario_cordeiro.pdf: 1199389 bytes, checksum: 6ffcb12d46a17e7953d5288681ebf457 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T18:51:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 vanessa_nazario_cordeiro.pdf: 1199389 bytes, checksum: 6ffcb12d46a17e7953d5288681ebf457 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-07-09 / From centuries past to the present, pain and its symbolic value have not lost their vigor in scientific discussions. Chronic pain, here represented by fibromyalgia, is characterized by the prolongation of painful sensation in the body for more than six months. Fibromyalgia is known for the sensation of pain, without there being an organic substrate to back up its clinical / biomedical diagnosis. In the scientific literature, the tendency to approach fibromyalgia within positivist parameters is perceived in the scientific literature, which, in this case, has as main objective to attenuate the symptom aiming at the control of pain. What are the possible effects of this tendency that supposedly pervades the subject of pain, about what refers to their meanings and their relations? This research aimed to understand the experience of pain, from the perspective of patients in the treatment of fibromyalgia, based on the Systemic Theory reference. Specifically, we sought to understand conceptions and feelings about pain in patients diagnosed and treated with fibromyalgia; to understand the conditions of possibility to the experience with the pain, in the reconstruction of the process of discovery and diagnosis; to identify the perception of the subjects about the ways in which pain has been approached by health professionals; to analyze the ways in which the family is organizing in the face of pain, based on the understanding of family structure and its interrelation with pain and treatment. In this qualitative research, five women were diagnosed with fibromyalgia for at least one year. The in-depth interview was used as the main technique, contextualized by field diary, aiming at records of intersubjective aspects arising from interviews. The content analysis of Minayo in its thematic aspect aided in the understanding of the material constructed in the field. In the first theme emotional components related to / influencing the experience of pain were perceived; the presence of traumatic events (with regard to losses, for example) in the first manifestations of pain; adopted behaviors of suppression to the pain, at the same time that occurred movement of resistance to the change and a search to the homeostasis. In the second theme, it was observed the maintenance of beliefs that the disease manifests itself in an exclusively emotional and / or physical instance; medication as the main therapy offered to silence the pain; difficulty in dealing with subjective issues; little demand for space that aims at a treatment beyond physical pain. None of the participants showed interest in a psychotherapeutic space. Finally, in the third theme it was observed that, in general, women occupy a central position in their families; they feel little understood. It was also observed family relations that were negatively feedbacks, facilitating the maintenance of the symptom, the families adopt behaviors that reverberate in a maintenance of dysfunctional homeostasis. This dysfunctional pattern is characterized as a movement of continuous rigidity, with few opportunities for change and consequently few transitions within the systems, leaving the conditions of possibility to the true experience. With this research it is estimated to contribute to an integral assistance, reflecting on the nuances involved in the complexity of the pain experience and family relationships that permeate the context of fibromyalgia and its treatment. / Desde séculos passados até hoje a dor e seu valor simbólico não perderam vigor nas discussões científicas. A dor crônica, aqui representada pela fibromialgia, é caracterizada pelo prolongamento da sensação dolorosa no corpo por mais de seis meses. A fibromialgia é conhecida pela sensação de dor, sem que haja um substrato orgânico para respaldar o seu diagnóstico clínico/biomédico. Percebe-se na literatura científica a tendência em abordar a fibromialgia dentro de parâmetros positivistas que, neste caso, têm como principal objetivo atenuar o sintoma visando ao controle da dor. Quais os possíveis efeitos dessa tendência que supostamente perpassa o sujeito da dor, sobre o que remete aos seus significados e às suas relações? Nesta pesquisa buscou-se compreender a experiência da dor, na perspectiva de pacientes em tratamento de fibromialgia, com base no referencial da Teoria Sistêmica. De forma específica, buscou-se conhecer concepções e sentimentos sobre dor, em pacientes diagnosticados e em tratamento com fibromialgia; compreender as condições de possibilidade à experiência com a dor, na reconstrução do processo de descoberta e diagnóstico; identificar a percepção dos sujeitos sobre os modos como a dor vem sendo abordada pelos profissionais de saúde; analisar os modos como a família vem se organizando perante a dor, com base na compreensão da estrutura familiar e sua inter-relação com a dor e o tratamento. Nesta pesquisa de natureza qualitativa participaram cinco mulheres diagnosticadas com fibromialgia há pelo menos um ano. Utilizou-se a entrevista em profundidade como técnica principal, contextualizada por diário de campo visando registros de aspectos intersubjetivos advindos das entrevistas. A análise de conteúdo de Minayo em sua vertente temática auxiliou na compreensão do material construído em campo. No primeiro tema perceberam-se componentes emocionais relacionados a/influenciando a experiência da dor; a presença de eventos traumáticos (no que concerne a perdas, por exemplo) nas primeiras manifestações de dores; condutas adotadas de supressão à dor, ao mesmo tempo em que ocorria movimento de resistência à mudança e uma busca à homeostase. No segundo tema percebeu-se a manutenção de crenças de que a doença manifesta-se em uma instância exclusivamente emocional e/ou física; a medicação como principal terapêutica ofertada para silenciar a dor; dificuldade de profissionais em lidar com questões de ordem subjetiva; pouca procura por espaço que vise um tratamento para além da dor física. Nenhuma das participantes demonstrou interesse por um espaço psicoterápico. Por fim, no terceiro tema foi observado que, de modo geral, as mulheres ocupam uma posição central em suas famílias; sentem-se pouco compreendidas. Também foi observado relações familiares que se retroalimentavam negativamente, facilitando a manutenção do sintoma, as famílias adotam condutas que repercutem numa manutenção de homeostase disfuncional. Esse padrão disfuncional caracteriza-se como um movimento de rigidez contínuo, com poucas oportunidades de mudança e consequentemente de poucas transições dentro dos sistemas, afastando as condições de possibilidade à verdadeira experiência Com esta pesquisa estima-se contribuir para uma assistência integral, refletindo sobre as nuances envolvidas na complexidade da experiência da dor e as relações com a família que perpassam o contexto da fibromialgia e seu tratamento.

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