Patient Perspectives on Upper-Extremity Pain and Substance Use from 19 Interviews

Nineteen adults with chronic non-traumatic upper-extremity pain and risky substance use participated in semi-structured interviews. The data, authored by Julie R. Brewer and last updated in April 2026, captures patient experiences and feedback on the Web-TIRELESS online intervention. Four key themes emerged, including challenges managing pain, motivations for substance use, intervention preferences, and barriers to adoption.

Use Cases

• Analyzing patient-reported barriers to integrated pain and substance use care based on described themes of skepticism and low motivation.
• Designing user-centered digital intervention features based on described preferences for flexibility, privacy, and evidence-based content.
• Studying the relationship between pain coping and substance use based on described patient narratives of using alcohol, cannabis, or tobacco for symptom management.

Strengths

• Data is derived from 19 individual patient interviews, providing in-depth qualitative insights.
• Analysis identified four distinct thematic areas, offering structured findings.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small at 415.1 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Individual semi-structured interviews analyzed via hybrid deductive-inductive thematic analysis.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 12:20:03; freshness should be verified.

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