Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses
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Hospitalized children experience moderate-to-severe pain after laparoscopic appendectomy, but knowledge of children's pain experiences after discharge home is limited. Accurate pain assessments are needed to guide appropriate pain treatment. ⋯ Adolescents experience severe pain at home after laparoscopic appendectomy and some experience pain for 7 to 14 days after hospital discharge. Visual analytics better represent the dynamics of pain experiences than measures of central tendency.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The Effect of Maternal Voice on Venipuncture Induced Pain in Neonates: A Randomized Study.
Venipuncture is a common procedure in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and causes significant pain for neonates. ⋯ Recorded maternal voice can improve pain caused by venipuncture in neonates. These are simple, rapid, and cost-effective methods that nurses can implement during venipuncture in neonates.
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Exercise and physical activity are an evidence-based practice for chronic pain. Health professionals need instruments to assess self-efficacy for this practice taking into account the specific barriers of patients with these health problems. ⋯ The scale showed adequate psychometric properties and can be a useful tool to help health professionals monitor patients' self-efficacy perception and customize both physical activity and walking exercise intervention goals and their implementation.
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Hospitalized children continue to experience procedural pain due to inconsistent implementation of readily available, evidence-based pain interventions. ⋯ A multi-modal procedural pain management approach was infrequently used and documented, highlighting undertreatment based on recommended practices and guidelines. Perceived intervention effectiveness and satisfaction with pain management were however found to be relatively high.
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Evidence-based practices are shown to improve health outcomes in persons with substance use disorder (SUD), but practice adoption is often limited by stigma. Stigma towards these patients leads to poor communication, missed diagnoses, and treatment avoidance. ⋯ People who believe SUD is a real illness were more likely to support evidence-based treatment practices, show less stigma towards those suffering from SUD, and support harm reduction services.