• Rongna Wang, Xiaoyan Zheng, Xixi Su, Xiuyu Huang, Huangju Liu, Yulai Guo, and Ji Gao.
• The School of Nursing, Fujian Medical University, No.1 Xueyuan Road, Shangjie, Minhou, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
• Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Oct 1; 24 (5): e115e122e115-e122.

BackgroundPatients' pain beliefs are the main obstacle to effective pain management. Assessing and correcting negative perceptions is important for improving pain intensity and quality of life of patients with cancer pain.AimsTo explore pain beliefs among oral cancer patients using the Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation as a theoretical framework. The primary components of the model, cognitive representations, emotional representations, and coping responses, were examined.DesignA qualitative method was used.SettingsPARTICIPANTS/SUBJECTS:   METHODS: Semi-structured, qualitative, in-depth interviews were conducted with patients newly diagnosed with oral cancer in a tertiary care hospital. The interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis.ResultsInterviews with 15 patients revealed that the pain beliefs of patients with oral cancer included three themes: pain cognitive representations of oral cancer, pain emotional representations of oral cancer, and pain coping responses.ConclusionsNegative pain beliefs are common among oral cancer patients. This novel application of the self-regulatory model demonstrates that it can be used to capture the key pain beliefs (i.e., cognitions, emotions, and coping responses) of oral cancer patients within a single, unifying framework.Copyright © 2023 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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