Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses
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Patients with chronic pain and/or spasticity who have an intrathecal targeted drug delivery (TDD) pump require frequent needle access procedures to refill the pump's medication reservoir. Some patients find the access procedure painful and/or anxiety provoking. The purpose of this study was to determine if a nursing intervention of providing a distraction with a music relaxation video during the pump access procedure would reduce patients' pain and state anxiety. ⋯ The music video was effective in producing a sustained reduction over time of participants' pain during the pump refill procedures; it was most effective in initially reducing participants' state anxiety at the initial intervention visit; however, it did not demonstrate a progressively sustained effect. Participants' opinions about the music video experience were positive.
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Epidural (EPI) catheter analgesia is frequently prescribed as a regional analgesic technique to patients with multiple rib fractures (MRF) following surgical stabilization of rib fractures (SSRF). ⋯ Education on self-care therapy significantly benefited pain management, recovery, and QoL for patients with MRF who received EPI catheter analgesia after SSRF operation.
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To examine the "age-related positivity effect" and its sex differences in the pain-depression relationship among Chinese community-dwelling older adults. ⋯ The study suggests that all older women and "young-old" men (younger senior citizens aged 60-79) in China are more likely to experience depressive symptoms from pain. Interventions on cognitive psychology should particularly target all older women and young-old men to reduce the detrimental effect of pain on emotional well-being.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Retracted Publication
Effect of White Noise and Lullabies on Pain and Vital Signs in Invasive Interventions Applied to Premature Babies.
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). The editors have decided to retract the article based on the lack of ethical standard care interventions that should have been administered to the control group during planned blood collection. That standard of care includes known, evidence-based interventions such as massage, kangaroo care, listening to music, non-nutritive sucking/pacifier, and wrapping.