ArticleGeriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)
Adapting to chronic pain: A focused ethnography of black older adults.
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- A Community Health Worker-Led Positive Psychology Intervention for African American Older Adults With Chronic Pain.The Gerontologist · 2022Trial
- Race, Social Context, and Caregiving Intensity: Impact on Depressive Symptoms Among Spousal Caregivers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and multisite pain among adolescents in the United States.Pain reports · 2025Article
- "It Isn't What I Had to Do, It's What I Get to Do": The Experiences of Black Family Caregivers Managing Dementia.Journal of family nursing · 2024Article
- Factors Affecting Health Care Utilization Associations Among Young Adolescents With Persistent or Recurrent Pain.Western journal of nursing research · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Associations of Family Relationship Quality With Chronic Pain Incidence and Persistence Among Aging African Americans.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Chronic Pain Self-Management Strategies for Older Adults: An Integrative Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Prevalence Estimates of Arthritis and Activity-Limiting Pain Among Family Caregivers to Older Adults.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- Using the Socioecological Model to Understand Medical Staff and Older Adult Patients' Experience with Chronic Pain: A Qualitative Study in an Underserved Community Setting.Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- A Pilot Study of a Chronic Pain Self-Management Program Delivered by Community Health Workers to Underserved African American Older Adults.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Psychosocial Predictors of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Outcomes and their Contextual Determinants Among Black Individuals: A Narrative Review.The journal of pain · 2022Review
- On stimulus persistence and human behavior: the stimulus persistence unification theory.Communicative & integrative biology · 2022Review
- Invariance of the PAINAD Scale Between the Black and White Residents Living With Dementia.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Living with pain in 'age-(un)friendly' housing environments: A qualitative study with African American older adults.Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)Article
- "Bearing the Pain": The Experience of Aging African Americans With Osteoarthritis Pain.Global qualitative nursing researchArticle
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Abstract
This study aimed to understand the coping strategies used by a group of Black older adults to manage chronic pain. To this end, a focused ethnography was completed within a senior housing facility. Following participant observation, 106 residents completed informal interviews and surveys comprised of a demographic tool, the Brief Pain Inventory, the PROMIS Global Health scale, and the Psychological Stress Measure - 9. Further, a subset of 20 participants that reported daily pain completed formal semi-structured interviews, which were recorded and transcribed. Descriptive statistics were completed on survey data while interviews were analyzed contextually and thematically. The adaptive coping strategies used by participants to manage pain included: remaining positive, remaining active, being engaged in the community, prayer/meditation, and maintaining positive support systems. Effective coping strategies lead to compensated levels of adaptation for participants. A middle range schema of pain is presented that may guide future nursing pain management practice.
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