Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2015
Coping With Existential and Emotional Challenges: Development and Validation of the Self-Competence in Death Work Scale.
Palliative care professionals often are confronted by death in their work. They may experience challenges to self, such as aroused emotions and queries about life's meaningfulness. Assessing their level of "self-competence" in coping with these challenges is crucial in understanding their needs in death work. ⋯ The SC-DWS was found to be valid and reliable. This scale may facilitate helping professionals' understanding of their self-competence in death work, so appropriate professional support and training may be obtained.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2015
Multicenter StudyA Cross-Sectional Relationship Between Social Capital, Self-Compassion, and Perceived HIV Symptoms.
Individual resources of social capital and self-compassion are associated with health behaviors and perceived symptoms, suggesting that both are positive resources that can be modified to improve a person's symptom experience. ⋯ Employment and social capital modestly predicted current HIV symptom experience. Social capital can be incorporated into symptom management interventions, possibly as a way to reframe a person's symptom appraisal. This may be increasingly important as PLWH age. The relationship between employment status and HIV symptom experience was significant and should be explored further.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2015
Randomized Controlled TrialAn Educational Intervention to Reduce Pain and Improve Pain Management for Malawian People Living With HIV/AIDS and Their Family Carers: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Advances being made in improving access to HIV drugs in resource-poor countries mean HIV patients are living longer, and, therefore, experiencing pain over a longer period of time. There is a need to provide effective interventions for alleviating and managing pain. ⋯ A short pain education intervention is effective in reducing pain and improving pain management for Malawian people living with HIV/AIDS and their family carers.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2015
Observational StudyFatigue in HIV-Infected People: A Three-Year Observational Study.
HIV-related fatigue remains the most frequent complaint of seropositive patients. ⋯ Intervening to help people who are suffering from HIV-related fatigue to deal with stressful life events may help to ameliorate this debilitating symptom.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2015
Observational StudyQuality of Life, Pain Perception, and Distress Correlated to Ultrasound-Guided Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheters in Palliative Care Patients in a Home or Hospice Setting.
Intravenous fluid administration with peripherally inserted central venous catheters (PICCs) and midline catheters in palliative care. ⋯ Our results showed a low impact on pain and distress, a low level of local and systemic complications and a favorable impact on patients' quality of life. However, other studies are necessary to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the use of these devices and their role in palliative care.