• P Saintonge.
• Rech Soins Infirm. 2000 Mar 1(60):27-49.

AbstractThrough a descriptive research, we wished to investigate the perception by the patients who underwent a cholecysectomy and by the caregivers, of the post-operative pain in its sociological dimension. The question of the research is as follows: How far is the post-operative pain perceived as stigmata by the patients who underwent a cholecysectomy and by the nurses? The reference framework is built up on the basis of a theoretical approach of cholecystectomy and of the notions of pain and stigmata. We carried out interviews with ten patients and ten nurses. The sample size does not enable a scientific use of the enquiry results. Pain, such as it is perceived by the majority of the patients, as normal and acceptable, does not seem to bring them into disrepute. Stigmatization appears in the relation caregiver-patient. It contributes to disturbing the flow of interactions between the patients and the nurses. When the nurses do not meet the expectations of the patients, they are no longer considered as "initiate" but as "normal". The affectivity arising in the relationship caregiver-patient, seems to have an influence in the management of post-operative pain.

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