“My private theory is that it’s all in the head”: Understandings of chronic widespread pain among social workers from municipality job centers in Denmark
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“My private theory is that it’s all in the head” : Understandings of chronic widespread pain among social workers from municipality job centers in Denmark. / Schultz, Rikke; la Cour, Peter; Kousgaard, Marius Brostrøm; Davidsen, Annette Sofie.
I: Health Psychology Open, Bind 8, Nr. 1, 2021.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - “My private theory is that it’s all in the head”
T2 - Understandings of chronic widespread pain among social workers from municipality job centers in Denmark
AU - Schultz, Rikke
AU - la Cour, Peter
AU - Kousgaard, Marius Brostrøm
AU - Davidsen, Annette Sofie
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - People with chronic widespread pain (CWP) are often unfit for work, and consequently they are dependent on the municipality job center to receive social support and sickness benefits. The job center’s case management is based on a social worker’s assessment of the citizen’s health condition. This qualitative study investigates social workers’ understandings of CWP. Interviews were carried out with 12 social workers. The results showed that the participants predominantly experienced the citizens’ illnesses as psychosocially mediated—referring to trauma, or a lack of meaning in the citizens’ lives. Only a few participants mentioned possibilities for somatic explanations of CWP.
AB - People with chronic widespread pain (CWP) are often unfit for work, and consequently they are dependent on the municipality job center to receive social support and sickness benefits. The job center’s case management is based on a social worker’s assessment of the citizen’s health condition. This qualitative study investigates social workers’ understandings of CWP. Interviews were carried out with 12 social workers. The results showed that the participants predominantly experienced the citizens’ illnesses as psychosocially mediated—referring to trauma, or a lack of meaning in the citizens’ lives. Only a few participants mentioned possibilities for somatic explanations of CWP.
KW - chronic illness
KW - community health psychology
KW - interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
KW - pain
KW - qualitative methods
U2 - 10.1177/2055102921995367
DO - 10.1177/2055102921995367
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 33643660
AN - SCOPUS:85101154626
VL - 8
JO - Health Psychology Open
JF - Health Psychology Open
SN - 2055-1029
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 258622015