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Aims: To build an understanding of the patient’s experience and from this identify recurring themes that could form part of an item pool for further testing of persistent dentoalveolar pain disorder (PDAP). Methods: Proven cases of PDAP were identified from a clinical database, and a purposive maximum variation sample was drawn. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the sample by a single trained interviewer. Interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data collection and analysis occurred until data saturation (n = 20), with no new themes emerging. Analysis of the data was an iterative and inductive process broadly following the principles of the constant comparative method. Results: Recurrent themes emerging from the data were: difficulty in responding to history taking; duration and magnitude of pain; complex and confounding descriptors; common exacerbating factor; well-localized pain; deep pain; pressurized or pressure feeling. Conclusion: Several common experiences that can be considered items were identified in the data. These items will add to the limited pre-existing item pool in the literature and allow testing of this item pool to determine those items best suited to form an adjunctive self-report diagnostic instrument for PDAP.
Author(s): Durham J, Exley CE, John MT, Nixdorf DR
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Orofacial Pain
Year: 2013
Volume: 27
Issue: 1
Pages: 6-13
Print publication date: 01/12/2013
Date deposited: 24/04/2015
ISSN (print): 1064-6655
ISSN (electronic): 1945-3396
Publisher: Quintessence
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11607/jop.1022
DOI: 10.11607/jop.1022
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