Kön och genus relaterat till smärta i upplevelser, uttryck och behandling
One area of responsibility for a nurse is to alleviate suffering. Gender
research has shown that there are differences between men and women.
The aim of this literary study has been to elucidate men and women’s
experience and expression of pain and to examine to what extent sex and
gender influence which treatment the patient receive. The study is based
on 21 scientific articles from the databases PubMed and Cinahl. The
result shows that women experience and express more pain than men,
postoperative and experimental. It is however not possible to draw any
general conclusions in terms of the need for men and women to be
treated in different ways. It is important to judge and to treat pain from
an individual point of view. The suggestions for further research on this
topic include larger studies about how men and women experience and
express pain, how they are treated as well as how they should be treated