Trial reportCulture, medicine and psychiatry2016
Ways of Hoping: Navigating the Paradox of Hope and Despair in Chronic Pain.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effect of active TENS versus de-tuned TENS on walking capacity in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis: a randomized controlled trial.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2019Trial
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- "If I Accomplish Nothing Else but Hope, That Will be Enough": The Ethics and Morality of Market-Based Hope in Illness Entrepreneurship.Journal of business ethics : JBE · 2026Article
- "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
- Multilingual identification of nuanced dimensions of hope speech in social media texts.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Perceived and Dispositional Hope as Health-Related Constructs: Adaptation and Validation of the Polish Version of the Perceived Hope Scale.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Navigating Life With Parkinson's Disease: A Focus Group Study on Coping Strategies and Considerations for Self-Management Support.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
- Where There's Hope, There's Life 1 : On the Importance of Hope in Health Care.The Journal of medicine and philosophy · 2025Article
- The impact of chronic illness resources, fear of recurrence, hope, and health locus of control on self-management behaviors in post-stroke patients: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in medicine · 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
- Experiences of Patients Taking Conditioned Open-Label Placebos for Reduction of Postoperative Pain and Opioid Exposure After Spine Surgery.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Article
- Hopamine as Personalized Medicine for Persons with Parkinson's Disease.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2023Article
- Placebo From an Enactive Perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- A test of positive suggestions about side effects as a way of enhancing the analgesic response to NSAIDs.PloS one · 2019Article
- Hope and Schizophrenia in the Latino Family Context.Community mental health journal · 2019Article
- Expectations towards participation in easily accessible pain management interventions: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2017Article
- "Just Advil": Harm reduction and identity construction in the consumption of over-the-counter medication for chronic pain.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2015Article
- Predictors of hope and despair: Resilience, coping indicators, and demographic characteristics - A longitudinal study.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
In this paper, we explore hope in the context of living with chronic pain. Individuals with chronic pain from temporomandibular disorder(s) were interviewed four to five times over the course of their 18-month participation in a clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicine. We sought to understand shifts in participants' descriptions of expectations and hopefulness, particularly with regard to the work involved in counterbalancing positive thinking with buffers against disappointment. We found hope to be a dynamic and multifaceted mindset as distinct from being a single entity to be measured. Drawing upon Polanyi's concept of tacit knowing, we explore how different ways of hoping emerge and index one another in participant narratives. We offer a working typology of hope and raise as an issue the manner in which the paradox of hope--hoping enough to carry on while keeping hopes in check to avoid the ever-present possibility of despair--complicates simplistic notions of the relationship between positive thinking and the placebo response.
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