• J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2020

    Healthcare professionals' reports of cancer pain cues among older people with delirium: a qualitative-quantitative content analysis.

    • Carol A Graham, Gabriela Chaves, Rebecca Harrison, Lynn R Gauthier, Rinat Nissim, Camilla Zimmermann, Vincent Chan, Gary Rodin, Bonnie Stevens, and Lucia Gagliese.
    • School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; University of Queensland School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston, Australia.
    • J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 Jul 1; 60 (1): 28-36.e1.

    ContextHealth care professionals (HCPs) currently judge pain presence and intensity in patients with delirium despite the lack of a valid, standardized assessment protocol. However, little is known about how they make these judgments. This information is essential to develop a valid and reliable assessment tool.ObjectivesTo identify pain cues that HCPs report to judge pain in patients with delirium and to examine whether the pain cues differed based on patient cognitive status and delirium subtype.MethodsMixed qualitative-quantitative design. Doctors and nurses were recruited. All participants provided written informed consent, and before the recorded interview, demographic information was collected; then participants were asked to describe their practices and beliefs regarding pain assessment and management with older patients who are cognitively intact and patients with delirium. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and coded for pain cues. Coded data were imported into SPSS software (IBM SPSS Statistics Version 24; IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY) to conduct bivariate analyses.ResultsThe pain cue self-report was stated more often for intact than for delirium patients (χ2 [1; N = 106] = 22.56; P < 0.001). HCPs stated yelling (χ2 [2; N = 159] = 11.14; P = 0.004), when describing pain in hyperactive than in hypoactive and mixed delirium patients; and significantly more HCPs stated grimace (χ2 [2; N = 159] = 6.88; P = 0.03), when describing pain in hypoactive than hyperactive and mixed patients.ConclusionThis study outlines how HCPs conduct pain assessment in patients who are delirious and, also, identifies pain behavior profiles for the subtypes of delirium.Copyright © 2020 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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