Crenças de profissionais de centros de dor sobre dor crônica.

Abstract

À Prof.Dra Cibele Andrucioli de Mattos Pimenta, minha orientadora, que com sua sabedoria, compreensão e confiança tornou possível a realização desta pesquisa, todo meu respeito e a minha gratidão. Aos meus avós, meus pais Bernardino e Ilda, meus irmãos Paulo, Rubens, Cris, Dino e Carlos, minhas cunhadas, meus sobrinhos, meus tios, tias, primos e meu filho Lucas, pelos ensinamentos da vida, pelos verdadeiros valores e por compartilharem comigo a felicidade e alegria de uma família. À Prof. Dra Eliane Correa, minha amiga desde a graduação, pela amizade, incentivo, confiança e contribuição. À Prof.Dra Diná de Almeida Monteiro da Cruz, pela valiosa contribuição. À Rita Ortega, figura única, fora do comum, pelo profissionalismo e alegria, pela amizade, apoio e paciência nas buscas bibliográficas intermináveis. À Fernanda Raquel, pela amizade e disponibilidade, pelo incansável e precioso apoio durante a realização desta pesquisa.

Pain centers professionals' beliefs on non-cancer chronic pain

“…one would also expect that physicians, who have a better understanding of the concepts of cure and are better familiarized with the responses of patients with chronic pain to treatment, showed less belief in a cure, but this was not the case. The literature corroborates the findings of the present study that the knowledge and attitudes of health professionals are not yet in line with current scientific findings 8,11,14,20,21 .…”

“…The Survey of Chronic Pain Attitudes-Professionals (SPA-professionals) 13,14 was used to identify beliefs/attitudes of professionals toward chronic noncancerous pain. It was adapted from the Survey of Pain Attitudes-brief, developed for use with pain suffers [15][16][17] .…”

“…The final average score from each scale varied from 0 to 4. Some items were inverted (7,14,15,17,18,19,20) so their scores must be converted before they are added together. The conversion of the score was done by subtracting the score chosen by the respondent from four.…”

Avaliação da dor como quinto sinal vital: opinião de profissionais de enfermagem

“…Knowledge about these concepts is key to understand pain and to define the domains it is comprised of, the methods that will be used to assess it and the strategies to guarantee its control (3) .…”

“…Some professionals, based on their own experiences, assess pain in a superficial way and do not give this event the due importance (3) .…”