Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses
-
Observational Study
Prevalence of Pain and Its Characteristics in Hospitalized Patients in an Indian Teaching Hospital.
Pain has a great impact on the physical and mental condition of hospitalized patients, reduces quality of life, and increases economic burden. ⋯ Pain prevalence and intensity in this Indian hospital were high and pain treatment was adequate in many cases. Timely assessment and appropriate management of pain in hospitalized patients is needed to prevent further pain and its complications in these patients.
-
One of the most common problems in children that pain can not be managed adequately by the health workers. Knowledge level of nurses is an important factor in effective pain management. ⋯ The students were determined to have a moderate PPMK level and get the lowest scores, particularly from the pain control.
-
Racial and ethnic disparities in pain management are widely documented in the United States. The 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for opioid prescribing have generated new imperatives for using complementary and alternative medicine approaches (CAM) to manage chronic pain, including cancer pain. This review's purpose was to explore the prevalence of CAM use for cancer-related pain among racial and ethnic minorities and to organize these findings according to the CAM modalities proposed by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). ⋯ Overall, CAM use for any modality ranged from 51% to 83%. Mind-body therapies were reported most, and energy therapies the least. Differences in CAM use were most often attributable to socioeconomic status (SES), with those of higher SES associated with greater use of practitioner-assisted CAM therapies and those of lower SES with greater use of free therapies. This difference has implications for achieving adequate and consistent pain relief among subgroups of patients with cancer. This review also identifies a literature gap regarding racial/ethnic disparities in access to CAM for cancer pain, and a need for validated measures to assess CAM use.
-
Opioid analgesic misuse and abuse has given rise to an epidemic that has added to an increase in opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Adults with persistent noncancer pain (PNCP) are primarily treated with opioid analgesics. Many remain on these medications long term. Most of these patients are unaware of other effective measures for managing PNCP, such as nonpharmacologic modalities (NPMs). This lack of familiarity with NPMs presents a key contributor to the problem of NPM underuse among adult PNCP patients. This integrative review sought to identify key factors that contribute to NPMs underuse and the effect of education on patients' adoption or use for PNCP management. ⋯ Findings suggest that patient education about NPMs has the potential to motivate patients to try these modalities, which may increase overall use of NPMs for PCNP. Nurses could play a vital role in ensuring evidence-based NPMs are introduced to PNCP patients, which could increase patients' use of these measures and improve outcomes.
-
The Pediatric Critical-Care Observation Tool (P-CPOT) is an adaption of the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) originally designed to assess pain in nonverbal critically-ill adults. ⋯ The P-CPOT is a valid scale for assessing pain in PICU patients with very good psychometric performance. It is especially adept in detecting pain in ventilated patients.