Exploring Lived Experiences of Chronic Pain Through Photo-Elicitation and Social Networking

Pain Medicine ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1202-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail J Rolbiecki ◽  
Michelle Teti ◽  
Benjamin Crenshaw ◽  
Joseph W LeMaster ◽  
Jeff Ordway ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Photo Elicitation

Foreign Education, Underemployment, and Wellness

2021 ◽  
pp. 229-243
Author(s):  
Joseph O. Otundo ◽  
Jane A. Opiri
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
Foreign Education

Although the number of African immigrants in the United States has steadily increased, there remains a gap in understanding their lived experiences in the context of employment and wellness. Using qualitative method, this study investigated underemployment and wellness among six foreign-educated African immigrants. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss three themes that emerged from this study. Study design utilized was grounded theory. Participants in this study held professional jobs before relocating to the US. Results suggest that despite excitement of migrating to the US, African immigrants experience myriad life events from the time they land until when they settle down. Yet, the adaptation mechanisms reported include social networking and social support. Thus, three themes that emerged from this study are occupational, emotional, and social wellness. From the findings, the authors developed underemployment versus wellness conceptual framework that can be used for future studies.

Foreign Education, Underemployment, and Wellness

2022 ◽  
pp. 1222-1236
Author(s):  
Joseph O. Otundo ◽  
Jane A. Opiri
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
Foreign Education

Although the number of African immigrants in the United States has steadily increased, there remains a gap in understanding their lived experiences in the context of employment and wellness. Using qualitative method, this study investigated underemployment and wellness among six foreign-educated African immigrants. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss three themes that emerged from this study. Study design utilized was grounded theory. Participants in this study held professional jobs before relocating to the US. Results suggest that despite excitement of migrating to the US, African immigrants experience myriad life events from the time they land until when they settle down. Yet, the adaptation mechanisms reported include social networking and social support. Thus, three themes that emerged from this study are occupational, emotional, and social wellness. From the findings, the authors developed underemployment versus wellness conceptual framework that can be used for future studies.

scholarly journals Constructing the check-in: Reflections on photo-taking among Foursquare users

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-117
Author(s):  
Rowan Wilken ◽  
Lee Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Written Responses ◽  
Mobile Social Networking ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
The Social

In this article, we explore the social construction of geomedia in relation to mobile photo-taking. The article draws from a study of location-sensitive mobile social networking and search and recommendation service Foursquare in Melbourne and New York City. The study utilized photo elicitation techniques, with each participant asked to provide photographs they associated with their own Foursquare check-ins, accompanied by written responses to questions designed to encourage them to reflect upon their motivations for recording and uploading each image. What emerged from our analysis of how participants discussed the construction of their Foursquare check-ins, were certain consistencies with the findings of prior work on Foursquare (e.g. to register a new venue or a nice meal, as part of exercises in self-expression, and to record memory traces). Strikingly, though, we also noticed something subtly yet significantly different in relation to photo use. Many of the submitted images and accompanying explanations revealed a particular sensitivity toward the local and the familiar, and a desire to capture “a mood, a feeling”—an “ordinary affect.” In light of this, in this article we are interested in the tension that exists between designed or intended uses of Foursquare, the social appropriation and shaping that is undertaken by Foursquare’s end-users, and the technological and strategic business adjustments that are undertaken by Foursquare in response.

scholarly journals The lived experiences of chronic pain among immigrant Indian-Canadian women: A phenomenological analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nida Mustafa ◽  
Gillian Einstein ◽  
Margaret MacNeill ◽  
Judy Watt-Watson
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis

The Lived Experiences of Chronic Pain

2012 ◽  
Vol 125 (8) ◽  
pp. 836-837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Lived Experiences

scholarly journals Through Their Lens: Using Visual Methods to Illuminate the Lived Experiences of Diverse Older Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 727-727
Author(s):  
Jarmin Yeh ◽  
Tam Perry
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Visual Methods

Abstract Visual methods, like photovoice and photo-elicitation, have attracted modest attention in gerontological inquiry with diverse and vulnerable community-dwelling older adults. Visual methods are based on the idea of inserting images, produced by informants or not, into research interviews, allowing informants to be the experts of knowledge and meaning-making while the researcher becomes the student. The empowerment of informants as subject-collaborators in the research process is a distinctive feature of visual methods. Benefits include revealing unique insights into diverse phenomena by evoking elements of human consciousness, feelings, and memories that words may not easily express and surveys may not easily capture. This symposium presents qualitative research using visual methods to illuminate the lived experiences, voices, and perspectives of diverse and vulnerable older adults living in New Jersey, Connecticut, and California. Reyes’ research critiques how the operationalization of mainstream notions of civic participation becomes exclusionary and provides a more inclusive understanding of how civic participation is enacted and performed through the practices of Latinx and African American older adults living in New Jersey. Versey’s research with homeless older adults subverts the attention often focused within cities by interrogating the meaning of place with informants whose needs and desires are often overlooked or obscured by residing in a small, rural town in central Connecticut. Yeh’s research on aging in place inequalities chronicles the everyday lives of housed and unhoused older San Franciscans to reveal their tactics for negotiating a moving tension between the daily interiority of identity and contingencies of a changing environment. Qualitative Research Interest Group Sponsored Symposium.

Women’s Lived Experiences of Chronic Pain: Faces of Gendered Suffering

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 772-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Arman ◽  
Anja Gebhardt ◽  
Johanna Hök Nordberg ◽  
Susanne Andermo
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Caring Science ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Contemporary Health Care

Women are overrepresented in pain rehabilitation. They seem to be more exposed to comorbidity between mental illness and diseases of the musculoskeletal system than men, implying that besides biopsychosocial factors, gender relations and cultural context should be considered. The aim of the study is to understand the lived experience of women with chronic pain from a caring science and gender perspective. Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics has been used to analyze interviews from 21 women living with chronic pain in Sweden. The hermeneutical process revealed intertwined experiences of overperformance, loneliness, pain, and exhaustion. Women’s experience of an overwhelming life situation and the significance of mutual dependency seem to be central to health and suffering in women with chronic pain. We suggest, contemporary health care to acknowledge women’s health and suffering in relation to their life situation and prevailing gender roles.

scholarly journals ‘I am free in my wheelchair but pain does have a say in it though’: The meaning and experience of quality of life when living with paraplegia and chronic pain

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 1356-1367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Hughes ◽  
Amy E Burton ◽  
Robert C Dempsey
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Pain Experience ◽  
Management Quality ◽  
Perception Of Self ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers

This study investigated how wheelchair-using individuals with paraplegia and chronic pain make sense of the factors associated with quality of life based on interviews using photo-elicitation and interpretative phenomenological analysis. Three superordinate themes emerged in the analysis: experiencing quality of life through the perception of self and identity, interpersonal relationships as facilitators and barriers to quality of life and life in a wheelchair: pain experience and management. Quality of life for those living with paraplegia and chronic pain is experienced as a complex interaction across several life domains. The use of photographs may improve the communication of pain-related experiences and understanding by healthcare staff.

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