Assessing Pain in the Home Care Environment

Teenier, Pamela; Sender, Susan

doi:10.1097/01.nhh.0000281614.96670.80

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“…The Quality of Life-Visual Analogue Scale (QoL-VAS) [26] and the Pain-Visual Analogue Scale (Pain-VAS) [27] consist of two items measuring overall quality of life and degree of pain experienced by patients according to the opinion of the proxy-informant. The interval-level VAS version used 100-mm lines to measure the intensity of patient responses.…”

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Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of a Spanish version of the Quality of Life in Late-Stage Dementia Scale

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Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of a Spanish version of the Quality of Life in Late-Stage Dementia Scale

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“…As the risk of developing dementia increases with age, a large proportion of those who receive home health care are living with dementia or similar symptoms of cognitive impairment. Home healthcare teams regularly encounter complex care situations involving pain (Acello, ; Schwager, ; Teenier & Sender, ; Brown et al ., ). Because inadequate treatment of pain entails an associated risk of reduced mobility and muscle weakness that seriously affects quality of life (Woolf et al ., ; Breivik et al ., ), healthcare providers need to pay attention to pain symptoms.…”

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Home healthcare teams’ assessments of pain in care recipients living with dementia: a Swedish exploratory study

Karlsson

Bravell

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Int J Older People Nursing

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Schmerz bei Patienten in der ambulanten Pflege

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Lahmann

Lindena³

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Even though the majority of home care clients in this representative study suffered from pain, the degree of pain intensity only becomes an issue in home care if it concurs with impairments in daily living and a corresponding classification to higher levels of care dependency. These findings suggest that pain and pain management should receive more attention in home care, irrespective of observable impairments in daily living. In practice, nurses in home care services should regularly assess the level of pain intensity among home care clients and the results of these regular pain assessments should be taken into account for the identification of individual care needs.

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Assessing Pain in the Home Care Environment

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of a Spanish version of the Quality of Life in Late-Stage Dementia Scale

Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of a Spanish version of the Quality of Life in Late-Stage Dementia Scale

Home healthcare teams’ assessments of pain in care recipients living with dementia: a Swedish exploratory study

Schmerz bei Patienten in der ambulanten Pflege

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