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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on January 25, 2006
Rheumatology 2006 45(4):369-370; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kel022
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

EDITORIAL

The contribution of qualitative approaches to musculoskeletal research

B. N. Ong and J. C. Richardson

Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, Keele University, Keele, UK

Correspondence to: J. Richardson, Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. E-mail: j.c.richardson@keele.ac.uk

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Tell me a story of who you are, And see who I am in the stories I am living

    Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Dance.

Through a number of editorials [1, 2] this journal has raised awareness of the need to understand people's experiences of living with musculoskeletal pain and disability in order to provide effective care and support. Qualitative approaches are particularly suited to accessing the insider's view of his or her social world because their prime focus is on the way experiences are given meaning with reference to people's cultural and social contexts. A wide range of theoretical perspectives and methods can be adopted under the umbrella of qualitative research, but they commonly share particular strengths, namely by being interpretative in form, following a naturalistic paradigm (in contrast to the experiment), allowing multiple perspectives . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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