- Consider using an "explanatory models approach"[1] to learn more about how patients' social and cultural backgrounds influence their experience of pain.[1,2]
| - "What do you think is causing your pain?"
- "What problems does the pain cause you?"
- "How does the pain affect your body and your mind?"
- "What do you fear most about the pain?"
- "What have you used to help with the pain? How does it help?"
- "What treatments do you think might help you with the pain?"
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