Pain, Culture and Meaning

Match the following

• Social Support

• “[M] y mother-in-law is a homeopathic doctor so I

  actually have tons of rescue remedies and homeopathic

  stuff for like aches and pains so I constantly use that too”

• Medication

• “I come from a large family … so if anyone gets hurt

  some is always there … even if it’s just a cut”

• Passive and active coping strategies

• “[I] f it’s like a really excruciating headache then I’ll just

  try to take some Tylenol or something … I try to work out

  because that usually alleviates all of it”

Answer explanation

Match quote and implications:

• Pain as a hindrance to daily functioning

• “I would say more toward positive, cause then you can

  learn from it and you can – you know what exactly what

  happened and you won’t do that thing again”

• Pain as physical or emotional phenomenon

• “They can be excruciating. Where I can’t do anything”

• Pain as positive or negative experience

• “[B] ecause of all the responsibilities, I carry stress in my

  back so I’ll feel it in my shoulders every now and then”

Answer explanation

Match quote and implications

• Family and pain expression

• “[T] hey don’t really show their emotions or their physical pain so I don’t feel comfortable showing it to them”

• Pain expression

• “I’ll more than likely tell other people that I’m in pain so they will kind of leave me alone”
  

• Passive and active coping strategies

• “[I] f it’s like a really excruciating headache then I’ll just

  try to take some Tylenol or something … I try to work out

  because that usually alleviates all of it”

Answer explanation

According to Liao et al, 2016.

Match quote and implications:

• Pain as physical or emotional phenomenon

• “[B] ecause of all the responsibilities, I carry stress in my

  back so I’ll feel it in my shoulders every now and then”

• Pain as positive or negative experience

• “I would say more toward positive, cause then you can

  learn from it and you can – you know what exactly what

  happened and you won’t do that thing again”

• Pain as a hindrance to daily functioning

• “They can be excruciating. Where I can’t do anything”

Answer explanation

According to Liao et al, 2016

Now match quote and ethnicity.

• African American

• “I would say more toward positive, cause then you can

  learn from it and you can – you know what exactly what

  happened and you won’t do that thing again”

• Asian

• "[B] ecause of all the responsibilities, I carry stress in my

  back so I’ll feel it in my shoulders every now and then”

• Caucasian

• “I’ll more than likely tell other people that I’m in pain so

  they will kind of leave me alone”

• African American

• “They can be excruciating. Where I can’t do anything”

Answer explanation

According to Liao et al, 2016.

Match quote and ethnicity

• Caucasian

• “[T] hey don’t really show their emotions or their physical

  pain so I don’t feel comfortable showing it to them”

• Hispanic

• “[M] y mother-in-law is a homeopathic doctor so I

  actually have tons of rescue remedies and homeopathic

  stuff for like aches and pains so I constantly use that too”

• Asian

• “[I] f it’s like a really excruciating headache then I’ll just

  try to take some Tylenol or something … I try to work out

  because that usually alleviates all of it”

• Hispanic

• “I come from a large family … so if anyone gets hurt

  some is always there … even if it’s just a cut

Answer explanation

According to Liao et al, 2016.