Table 3 Overview of the subcategories and categories
Subcategories | Categories | Theme |
|---|---|---|
Altered daily routines disrupt lifestyles and weight control | Pain disturbing days and nights worsens weight control | Lifestyle changes are burdensome with a body broken by both pain and obesity |
Impaired sleep comes with a sedentary lifestyle | ||
Pain takes away energy and time from me | Pain-related stress makes lifestyle changes harder | |
Unhealthy food more accessible at home increasing eating | ||
Unpredictable pain disrupts planned activities | ||
Sedentariness due to a broken body | A painful and obese body intertwined with negative emotions | |
Emotional regulation by eating and smoking | ||
Hesitant on obesity affecting pain | The overlooked impact of obesity on chronic pain | |
Unbelievable that obesity causes pain |