To provide deep insights into the pain associated with pressure injuries in home-dwelling individuals using narrative accounts.
Pressure injuries or pressure ulcers are burdensome and costly. Prevalence data, surveys and systematic reviews demonstrate that pain associated with pressure injury is widespread, but voices of home-dwelling patients have remained largely unheard.
Concurrent mixed methods case study of a UK community of approximately 50,000 adults.
Qualitative interviews, conducted in 2016, of twelve home-dwelling adult participants with a current pressure injury (n=10), or a recently healed pressure injury (n=2).
Pain had an adverse impact on activities of daily living, mobility and sleep. Participants described days that were clouded in pain; a pain they felt was poorly understood and often out of control. Thematic content analysis revealed two major themes; these are: Poorly controlled pain: 'I just want the pain to go away'; and, Uncertainty for the future: 'it almost seems insurmountable' CONCLUSION: Findings of our study support the need to develop an appropriate assessment tool for pressure injury patients in the community to enable health care professionals and patients to recognise and manage pressure injury related pain effectively This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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