Grant: DRA : Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGRS D)
University of British Columbia
$120,000.00
Addressing epistemic injustice in the diagnosis of chronic musculoskeletal pain
EF 2025-26
Résumé
In healthcare, seeing and measuring are considered the best ways of knowing about disease. Some diseases cannot be seen or measured reliably take longer to get diagnosed. While people are waiting to get diagnosed with these diseases, they may be told there is nothing physically wrong with them, even though they feel differently. This is common with diseases that cause chronic pain.
This project will study how patients and healthcare providers interact in chronic pain care settings to answer the following questions:
1)How do healthcare providers decide what is going on in a person's body when they can't see or measure anything wrong?
2)What happens when healthcare providers and patients disagree about what is happening within the patient's body?
3)How can we design new tools and ways of working in healthcare to make sure that people who live with chronic pain are understood and believed when they say something is wrong in their body, even when what is wrong can't be seen or measured?
Programme
DRA : Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGRS D)
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
British Columbia, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
CIHR Funding Decisions Database
Tel que publié
Id
553026
Name
Haagaard Alex
Region
British Columbia
Country
Canada
Orgtype
Institution Paid; Research Institution
Instname2
Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis
Theme2
Social / Cultural / Environmental / Population Health
Prcname2
DT2 (Health services and population health research) CGRS Doctoral
Projecttitle
Addressing epistemic injustice in the diagnosis of chronic musculoskeletal pain
Programtype2
Studentship Programs
Orgnameinp2
University of British Columbia
Cihramount2
$120,000
Cihrequipment2
$0
Programname2
DRA : Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGRS D)
Keyworddelim
Chronic Pain; Diagnosis; Epistemic Injustice; Health Equity; Musculoskeletal; Patient Engagement; Service Design; Social Determinants Of Health; Sociology
Abstract
In healthcare, seeing and measuring are considered the best ways of knowing about disease. Some diseases cannot be seen or measured reliably take longer to get diagnosed. While people are waiting to get diagnosed with these diseases, they may be told there is nothing physically wrong with them, even though they feel differently. This is common with diseases that cause chronic pain.
This project will study how patients and healthcare providers interact in chronic pain care settings to answer the following questions:
1)How do healthcare providers decide what is going on in a person's body when they can't see or measure anything wrong?
2)What happens when healthcare providers and patients disagree about what is happening within the patient's body?
3)How can we design new tools and ways of working in healthcare to make sure that people who live with chronic pain are understood and believed when they say something is wrong in their body, even when what is wrong can't be seen or measured?
Competitiondate
202511
Approvedterm2
3 yrs 0 mth
Pinamesdelim
Haagaard, Alex
Approvedterm
3 ans 0 mois
Cihrcontribution2
~ $120,000~ $0~
