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Metody jakościowe w badaniu bólu – doniesienie z badań
Qualitative Methods in Pain Assessment – Report of Research Project

Author(s): Weronika Kałwak
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Cognitive Science

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a report of research project concerning qualitative methods in pain assessment. The linguistic analysis of patients with chronic pain narratives was done on the first stage. It was showed that pain is communicated in an individualized way – people use different grammatical categories and stylistic means talking about their pain experience. On the second stage of the project the adequacy of McGill Pain Questionnaire in pain assessment and diagnosis was investigated. Conclusions are connected with human experience, broadly speaking, and scientific method used in psychology.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 73-81
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish