The experience of chronic pain among adolescents: suffering and attempt to overcome pain?

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Maryam Shaygan1, Azita Jaberi2,3

  • 1Community Based Psychiatric Care Research Center, Nursing Department, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

BMC Pediatrics
|September 19, 2022
PubMed
Abstract

Keywords:
AdolescentsChronic painQualitative study

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