%0 Journal Article
%A Alvarado García, Alejandra María
%A Salazar Maya, Ángela María
%8 2015
%@ 0120-5307
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10818/36387
%X Objective. This study sought to comprehend and analyze the
experience of living with chronic benign pain during aging
from the perspective of the adaptation model by Callista Roy.
Methodology. Ours was an exploratory descriptive study using for
analysis tools from the theory based on criteria by Strauss and
Corbin. The strategy involved in-depth interviews of 10 elderly
adults residing in Medellín, Antioquia, and Chía, Cundinamarca
(Colombia) with chronic benign pain. Results. In elderly adults,
behaviors were identified that were secondary to the presence of
pain and which are consequence of the capacity to adapt to their
experience, managing to modify the environment by using internal
and external resources that permitted their controlling the paingenerating
stimuli in the human beings adaptation means based
on the Adaptation model by Callista Roy. Conclusion. Elderly
adults respond effectively to their new secondary condition:
presence of benign pain in all the means of adaptation.
Key words: chronic pain; aged; adaptation; qualitative research;
models, nursing.
%I Investigación y Educación en Enfermería
%K Chronic pain
%K Aged
%K Adaptation
%K Qualitative research
%K Models
%K Nursing
%T Adaptation to chronic benign pain in elderly adults
%~ Intellectum