Table 1.

Motivation to manage pain (N = 110).

On a scale of 0–10, how motivated are you to effectively manage your pain?
Sample average (SD)	8.30 (2.3)
Frequency by motivation level N (%)a	Motivation exemplar
No motivation = 0 N = 2 (1.8)	Perspective of self: “You gotta get motivated. Well, got to get more confident than I am right now, but sitting here talking to you [researcher], you motivate me to get out there and go to walking.”
	Perspective of the black community: (1) “It’s hard to get ‘em motivated when they don’t want to. They [Black Americans] need support for one thing. They ain’t gonna do it on their own. They need support from each other.”; (2) “Well, the ones that ain’t gon wanna do that ain’t gon’ do it no way.”
Low motivation = 1–3 N = 2 (1.8)	Perspective of self: “I see a lot more proactive counselling with diabetes, than I do with arthritis. That’s why I sayin’, when they get it, they need to be just as proactive as they are when you get diabetes.”
	Perspective of the black community: (1) “It’s gotta be some kind of motivation through knowledge, some kind of way you can dispense knowledge to them that can get them to thinking about the importance of it.”; (2) “Cuz if you are uninformed, I mean, that’s just like bein’ unequipped for whatever, a job, or a whatever. I mean, now that’s bad, but some people are, I do know.”
Moderate motivation = 4–6 N = 17 (15.5)	Perspective of self: “I think my main thing I need is to be motivated, and I love reading. Like I said, I just try to keep a positive attitude about life and your health, and don’t think, just because you’ve got some issues that you gotta sit down. You can work on it and make it better. I’m gonna go in there and start exercising as soon as you leave.”
	Perspective of the black community: Motivation, that’s a big question. Well, I think probably, like we’ve done, and I am grateful, and I know that every area don’t have that, is that we have a social worker. And so I think it’s not a easy task, but I think it’s something that has to be done, on a continuing basis, and probably won’t win everybody, but we will win some. Managing the pain—the help that’s out there for it.”
High motivation = 5–7 N = 8 (7.3)	Perspective of self: “Taking care of health motivates me to walk.”
	Perspective of the black community: “Let ‘em know it can get better. We can find out what we need to use on our body, cream or whatever it is, what’s helpful to us.”
Very high motivation = 8–10 N = 80 (99.1)	Perspective of self: “To me, I think a lot of it’s got to be self. If you want it. If you wanna manage that pain, it’s got to be up here. I can do this. I’m gonna manage this. It’s about like exercise. It’s ‘bout like losin’ weight. All basically the same thing. You gotta encourage. Plus, I feel like if you had other people in the same situation that help to give you that support, too.”
	Perspective of the black community: No narrative available.

0 = being not motivated to 10 = being highly motivated.

^aMissing N = 1.