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Modes of hoping: understanding hope and expectation in the context of a clinical trial of complementary and alternative medicine for chronic pain.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A patient journey map based on the experience of temporomandibular disorders patients: a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Ways of Hoping: Navigating the Paradox of Hope and Despair in Chronic Pain.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2016Trial
- "I hope to get some hope": balancing expectations, hope, and acceptance in naturally occurring consultations without a medical diagnosis.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Hope in Medicine Scale.Clinical psychology in Europe · 2024Article
- A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services, and treatments.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Prevalence and Characteristics of Chronic Spinal Pain Patients with Different Hopes (Treatment Goals) for Ongoing Chiropractic Care.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Observational
- Whole Systems Research Methods in Health Care: A Scoping Review.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- The Beneficence of Hope: Findings from a Qualitative Study with Gout and Diabetes Patients.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2018Article
- Works of Illness and the Challenges of Social Risk and the Specter of Pain in the Lived Experience of TMD.Medical anthropology quarterly · 2015Article
- A qualitative study of changes in expectations over time among patients with chronic low back pain seeking four CAM therapies.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2015Article
- New perspectives on patient expectations of treatment outcomes: results from qualitative interviews with patients seeking complementary and alternative medicine treatments for chronic low back pain.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2014Article
- Cognitive interviews guide design of a new CAM patient expectations questionnaire.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2014Article
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Abstract
This article explores the role of hope in participants' assessments of their expectations, experiences and treatment outcomes. Data analysis focused on semi-structured, open-ended interviews with 44 participants, interviewed 3-5 times each over the course of a study evaluating Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for temporomandibular disorders (TMD), a form of chronic orofacial pain. Transcripts were coded and analyzed using qualitative and ethnographic methods. A "Modes of Hoping" (Webb, 2007)(1) framework informed our analysis. Five modes of hoping emerged from participant narratives: Realistic Hope, Wishful Hope, Utopian Hope, Technoscience Hope, and Transcendent Hope. Using this framework, hope is demonstrated as exerting a profound influence over how participants assess and report their expectations. This suggests that researchers interested in measuring expectations and understanding their role in treatment outcomes should consider hope as exercising a multi-faceted and dynamic influence on participants' reporting of expectations and their experience and evaluation of treatment.
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