FEEL IT: early-life social experiences may influence adult symptom experiences

Our overall research aim is to study how early-life experiences may shape symptom proneness in later life. In this qualitative study we aim to elucidate how symptoms are perceived, interpreted, managed and communicated by and among family-members (e.g., parents and children).
More specifically, we aim to answer the following research questions. 
1.    How do parents assess (the nature and severity of) physical symptoms in themselves and their children?

2.    How and on the basis of which conditions do parents make decisions about their response to physical complaints in themselves and their children?

3.    How do parents' assessments and decisions, regarding physical symptoms of themselves and their children, relate to the family context in their own childhood?