• Pain Manag Nurs · Feb 2022

    The Relationship Between Pain, Function, Behavioral, and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia and Quality of Life.

    • Barbara Resnick, Elizabeth Galik, Ann Kolanowski, Kimberly VanHaitsma, Marie Boltz, Shijun Zhu, Jeanette Ellis, Liza Behrens, Karen Eshraghi, Cynthia Renn, and Susan G Dorsey.
    • University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: resnick@umaryland.edu.
    • Pain Manag Nurs. 2022 Feb 1; 23 (1): 556155-61.

    BackgroundThis study evaluated the association between age, sex, comorbidities, cognition, and administration of opioids with pain and the impact of all of these variables plus function, agitation, resistiveness to care, and depression on quality of life among residents in nursing home with severe dementia.DesignThis was a descriptive study using baseline data from the Evidence Integration Triangle for Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia implementation study.MethodsModel testing was done using structural equation modeling. The sample included 553 residents from 55 nursing homes with a mean age of 83.88 (standard deviation = 10.44) and mean Brief Interview of Mental Status of 4.30 (standard deviation = 3.50).ResultsThere were significant associations showing those who were older, male, had fewer comorbidities, better cognition, and were black were more likely to have pain. Pain, in combination with the demographic and descriptive variables, explained 32% of the variance in function, 75% of the variance in depression, 88% of the variance in agitation, 98% of the variance in resistiveness to care, and 92% of the variance in quality of life. The model however did not show a good fit to the data.SettingThe study was done in 55 nursing homes in Maryland and Pennsylvania.Participants/SubjectsA total of 553 residents were included in the study.ConclusionsThe model did not have a good fit with the data which likely was due to the lack of variance in outcomes. The hypothesized paths, with the exception of opioid use, were significant.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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