Nurse‐led educational interventions on cancer pain outcomes for oncology outpatients: a systematic review

Abstract

The results suggest that an effective cancer pain protocol for improving cancer pain management can be established in China.

Effectiveness of nursing interventions among patients with cancer: An overview of systematic reviews

“…The largest group of nursing interventions consisted of educational interventions, which were mainly psychoeducational in nature. According to the authors, educational interventions consisted of information provision, counselling, coaching and guidance (Cook, McIntyre, & Recoche, ; Coolbrandt et al, ; Rueda, Solà, Pascual, & Subirana Casacuberta, ; Zhou et al, ), as well as encouragement and general support (Hersch, Juraskova, Price, & Mullan, ). In some studies, nursing interventions described as nursing programmes included educational interventions, but a detailed content description was lacking (Cook et al, ; Jacobsen, Donovan, Vadaparampil, & Small, ; Rodin et al, ).…”

“…However, the impact on patients’ pain relief was found to be conflicting. (Zhou et al, .) Educational interventions had a beneficial effect on patients’ self‐esteem (Rueda et al, ) and satisfaction with care (Cook et al, ).…”

“…Educational interventions indicated inconsistent results on distress (Hersch et al, ) and anxiety (Cook et al, ; Coolbrandt et al, ; Rueda et al, ; Zhou et al, ). In some studies, a reduction in the overall symptom severity ranged from 7%–67%, meaning that the effect of the interventions varied greatly at the patient level (Coolbrandt et al, ).…”

Impact of Pain and Evaluation of Education and Self-Care in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer

“…Consistent with our results, systematic reviews found that patient education among patients with cancer had no effect on HR-QoL [101,210]. No statistically significant differences in anxiety and depression were reported among patients with cancer treated on an outpatient basis who received patient education [220].…”

Investigating the Effect of Reflexology in Intensity of Pain and Anxiety Among Patients Suffering From Metastatic Cancer in Adults’ Hematology Ward

“…The pain resulting from cancer is multidimensional and complex, and its understanding for the health of individuals is inconceivable [5,6]. Pain in these people develops numerous health problems and not merely in physical dimensions.…”