One area of responsibility for a nurse is to alleviate suffering. Gender research has shown that there are differences between men and women. The aim of this literary study has been to elucidate men and womens experience and expression of pain and to examine to what extent sex and gender influence which treatment the patient receive. The study is based on 21 scientific articles from the databases PubMed and Cinahl. The result shows that women experience and express more pain than men, postoperative and experimental. It is however not possible to draw any general conclusions in terms of the need for men and women to be treated in different ways. It is important to judge and to treat pain from an individual point of view. The suggestions for further research on this topic include larger studies about how men and women experience and express pain, how they are treated as well as how they should be treated
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hh-1097 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Karlsson, Susanne, Persson, Sara |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS), Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS), Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för Hälsa och Samhälle (HOS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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