The aim of this study was to generate a substantive theory, based on interviews with women with fibromyalgia, explaining how they manage their main concerns in daily life. The study has an inductive approach in line with classic grounded theory (Glaser, 1992). Twenty-three women living in the southwest region of Sweden were interviewed in-depth about their daily living with fibromyalgia and pro...

Objective Caregivers’ pain estimations may have important implications for pediatric pain management decisions. Affective responses elicited by facing the child in pain are considered key in understanding caregivers’ estimations of pediatric pain experiences. Theory suggests differential influences of sympathy versus personal distress on pain estimations; yet empirical evidence on the impact of...

Nero’s Guests (2009) is a documentary film directed by Deepa Bhatia on farmers’ suicide in India. It documents the of farmers harvesting cotton crops. Sainath P, journey across villages India, to investigate motive behind suicide. mentions shortcomings Green Revolution — use HYV seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides results higher costs crop production so profit declines debts escalate. This hopel...

Each year, thousands of premature babies are treated in neonatal intensive care units and are exposed to invasive noxious procedures, the long term effects of which are unclear. It was once believed that premature babies undergoing invasive treatments did not feel pain because they lacked pain perception circuitry. However, research has shown that early life is a very critical time period for d...

The pain point is a specific form of consumer demand and concept that has been widely used in marketing business strategies recent years. Pain points arise when consumers have put enough effort to achieve their goals but little effect. In this paper, the pain-feature matching effect proposed by combining past research on consumers’ attitudes with targeting features. It predicted willingness pay...

BACKGROUND Neurologically, it is proven that stimulation of larger diameter fibers - e.g. using appropriate coldness, warmth, rubbing, pressure or vibration- can close the neural "gate" so that the central perception of itch and pain is reduced. This fact is based upon "Gate-control" theory of Melzack and Wall. PRESENTATION OF THE HYPOTHESIS Syringe Micro Vibrator is a new design being introd...

Pain is a subjective experience. Therefore, attempts to measure its extent face the same difficulties which have long plagued experimenters hoping to scale other human sensations, but they are compounded further by complex emotional reactions and cognitive interpretations [ 411. Nonetheless, the need for improved methods of pain control mandates continued research on pain and its possible modul...

Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) has become an important tool for identifying brain representations of psychological processes and clinical outcomes using fMRI and related methods. Such methods can be used to predict or 'decode' psychological states in individual subjects. Single-subject MVPA approaches, however, are limited by the amount and quality of individual-subject data. In spite of ...

Pain self-efficacy and fear of movement have been proposed to explain how pain can lead to disability for patients with chronic low back pain. However the extent to which pain self-efficacy and fear of movement mediate the relationship between pain and disability over time has not been investigated. This study aimed to investigate whether pain self-efficacy and/or fear of movement mediate the r...