Prescription opioid misuse and addiction among chronic pain patients are emerging public
health concerns of considerable significance. Estimates suggest that more than 10% of …

This article briefly reviews psychological aspects of pain, paying special attention to chronic
pain. The review considers the interruptive and interference effects of pain and its impact on …

This paper presents an in-depth, idiographic study illustrating how chronic benign low back
pain may have a serious debilitating impact on the sufferer's sense of self. Semi-structured …

Although Personal Informatics stresses the importance of “self”-awareness and “self”-
knowledge in collecting personal data, a description of the “self,” to which all these …

This paper presents an in‐depth, idiographic study exploring the personal experience of
chronic benign low back pain in relation to the participant's body and sense of self. Semi …

As the number of chronic diseases is legion, each having a different impact on function and
quality of life, our chapter must necessarily be limited in scope. The contents of our chapter …

Objective: This study examines patients' pictorial representations of their chronic pain,
alongside their accounts of those images, in order to help our understanding of their lived …

Aim To synthesize qualitative descriptions of the experience of chronic pain across
conditions. Background Chronic pain is a transdiagnostic symptom in that while somatic …

This paper present data from the second and third rounds of a three-phase longitudinal
research project exploring the 'lived experiences' of patients with chronic low-back pain …

The aim of this study was to test whether enmeshment of self and pain predicted adjustment
(depression and acceptance) in a chronic pain population. 89 chronic pain patients …