Qualitative assessment of hospitalized patients' satisfaction with pain management

Sherwood, Gwen; Adams‐McNeill, Jeanette; Starck, Patricia L.; Nieto, Bea; Thompson, Christopher

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“…This might be attributed to the patients' lack of knowledge on what constitutes good pain relief; therefore, they are satisfied despite the severity and intensity of pain. However, real satisfaction with pain management is most likely when health‐care providers include patients as an informed partner (Sherwood et al. , 2000).…”

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Perspectives and experiences of elective surgery patients regarding pain management

Rejeh

Vaismoradi

2010

Nursing & Health Sciences

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The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives and experiences of elective surgery patients regarding pain management. A qualitative design, based on the content analysis approach, was used to collect and analyze the experience of 20 elective surgery patients who all had abdominal surgery in surgical wards in two teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. After employing purposeful sampling for the selection of the participants, semistructured interviews were held for data collection. During the data analysis, three main themes emerged: "perceptions of pain management goals", "patients' views of nurses' role in pain management", and "interaction in pain management". It was concluded that understanding the factors that influence pain management after surgery from the patients' viewpoint will contribute to the body of knowledge of nurses in order to promote the quality of nursing care.

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Perspectives and experiences of elective surgery patients regarding pain management

Rejeh

Vaismoradi

2010

Nursing & Health Sciences

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“…Older adults might be influenced more to select pain information in response to practitioners’ pain questions rather than their need to convey specific pain information. Older adults might be inexperienced in communicating pain information to their practitioners,31 assume that the practitioner knows best about the pain management,32 or forget to bring up an important pain issue once they have been distracted by responding to other questions. The finding that the open-ended group responded with more pain information overall, even after all groups were asked the open-ended question as the final question indicates the importance of initially using an open-ended pain question in order to maximize the exchange of pain information.…”

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The Effect of Pain Question Phrasing on Older Adult Pain Information

McDonald

Shea

Rose

et al. 2009

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

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The aim of this study was to test how practitioners’ pain communication affects the pain information provided by older adults. A posttest only double blind experiment was used to test how the phrasing of practitioners’ pain questions, open-ended and without social desirability bias; closed-ended and without social desirability bias; or open-ended and with social desirability bias, affected the pain information provided by 312 community living older adults with osteoarthritis pain. Older adults were randomly assigned to one of the three pain phrasing conditions to watch and orally respond to a computer displayed videotape of a practitioner asking about their pain. All responded to a second videotape of the practitioner asking if there was anything further they wanted to communicate. Lastly all responded to a third videotape asking if there was anything further they want to communicate about their pain. Transcripts of the audio taped responses were content analyzed using 16 a priori criteria from national guidelines to identify important pain information for osteoarthritis pain management. Older adults described significantly more pain information in response to the open-ended question without social desirability. The two follow up questions elicited significant additional information for all three groups, but did not compensate for the initial reduced pain information from the closed-ended and social desirability biased groups. Initial use of an open-ended pain question without social desirability bias and use of follow-up questions significantly increases the amount of important pain information provided by older adults with osteoarthritis pain.

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“…Feelings that significant others viewed them as a bother brought still more suffering. Findings from studies about satisfaction/dissatisfaction with care (Lövgren et al . 1996, Sherwood et al .…”

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Living with persistent pain: experiences of older people receiving home care

Blomqvist

Edberg

2002

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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0 0 2 ) Journal of Advanced Nursing, 40(3), 297-306 Living with persistent pain: experiences of older people receiving home care Background. Although the topic of pain among older people has received increasing interest, little is still known about how pain is experienced or handled by those who no longer manage independently but depend on professionals for help with daily living. Developing pain management for older people requires such knowledge. Aim. To explore sense of self, sense of pain, daily living with pain, sense of others and ways of handling pain in older people with persistent pain. Methods. Interviews with 90 older people receiving home care from nursing auxiliaries in their own homes or in sheltered accommodation were collected from January to June 2000. A typology of older people in persistent pain was developed. Activities for handling pain were examined using content analysis. Findings. Respondents' experiences of themselves and their pain varied. Two groups of older people, considered as 'competent and proud' and 'confident and serene', expressed satisfaction in spite of pain, while the groups 'misunderstood and disappointed' and 'resigned and sad' expressed dissatisfaction. The most common strategies used were medication, rest, mobility, distracting activities and talking about pain. Respondents chose strategies by balancing the advantages of the activities against the disadvantages these brought for their daily living. Conclusion. This study indicates that characteristics of the older people, such as their way of experiencing themselves, how pain affects their daily life and how they perceive effects and side-effects of pain management are areas that need to be identified when staff assess pain and plan pain management. Caring for older people in pain could be improved by listening to and believing their complaints, evaluating effects and side-effects from medications and nonpharmacological pain management and by emphasising the importance of common everyday activities such as mobility and distraction to relieve pain.

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Qualitative assessment of hospitalized patients' satisfaction with pain management

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Perspectives and experiences of elective surgery patients regarding pain management

Perspectives and experiences of elective surgery patients regarding pain management

The Effect of Pain Question Phrasing on Older Adult Pain Information

Living with persistent pain: experiences of older people receiving home care

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