Dealing with adolescents' recurrent pain problems in school health care-Swedish school nurses' view

Marie Golsäter; Stefan Nilsson; Helena Wigert

doi:10.1002/nop2.371

Dealing with adolescents' recurrent pain problems in school health care-Swedish school nurses' view

Nurs Open. 2019 Sep 11;6(4):1626-1633. doi: 10.1002/nop2.371. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

Marie Golsäter^{1

2}, Stefan Nilsson^{3

4}, Helena Wigert^{3

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Child Health Care and Futurum Region Jönköping County Barnhälsovården Jönköping Sweden.
² CHILD Research Group School of Health and Welfare Jönköping University Jönköping Sweden.
³ Institute of Health and Care Sciences The Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden.
⁴ Centre for Person-Centred care (GPCC) Institute of Health and Care Sciences The Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden.
⁵ Division of Neonatology Sahlgrenska University Hospital Gothenburg Sweden.

Abstract

Aim: To explore school nurses' strategies for supporting adolescents with recurrent pain.

Design: An explorative inductive qualitative design.

Method: Twenty-one Swedish school nurses were interviewed, and the interviews were subjected to content analysis.

Results: The findings show that the nurses are aware that recurrent pain problems are common among the adolescents. In their attempt to support these adolescents, the nurses describe how they are striving in attempts to acquire an understanding of the adolescents' situation, to understand the cause of the pain problem and to devise strategies that can be used to help the adolescents handle the situation.

Keywords: adolescents; content analysis; nursing; recurrent pain; school nurses.