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Byun and Choi: Pain Intensity, Pain Control and Pain Control Barriers between Cancer Patients and their Nurses
Original Article

Asian Oncology Nursing 2013; 13(4): 287-294.

Published online: 31 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5388/aon.2013.13.4.287

Pain Intensity, Pain Control and Pain Control Barriers between Cancer Patients and their Nurses

Jeong Seon Byun1, Ja Yun Choi2

1Department of Nursing, Chosun University Hospital, Gwangju, Korea.

2College of Nursing, Chonnam National University · CRINS, Gwangju, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Choi, Ja Yun. College of Nursing, Chonnam National University, 5 Hak-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-746, Korea. Tel: +82-62-530-4943, Fax: +82-62-225-3307, choijy@chonnam.ac.kr

Received 8 November 2013       Accepted 11 December 2013

© 2013 Korean Oncology Nursing Society

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Abstract

Purpose

This study was conducted to compare the levels of pain intensity and pain relief between cancer patients and nursing records, and to compare the barriers to pain control between cancer patients and their nurses.

Methods

Data were collected from 90 cancer patients who were admitted to three oncology wards and 90 oncology nurses in the same three wards at C University Hospital in G City from July to September, 2012.

Results

The most severe pain intensity reported by cancer patients was 6.59 points on the first day of analgesic treatment, while that of their nursing records was 3.98 points on the first day. There were significant changes in pain intensity over time between two groups (F=142.07, p<.001). The highest level of pain relief reported by patients was 2.87 points on the third day, while that of nursing records was 1.67 points on the first day. The score for the social system area of barriers to pain control among the nurses was higher than that of cancer patients (t=-3.69, p=.021).

Conclusion

Nurses need to frequently check and to be sensitive to cancer pain. Furthermore, the administrative procedures of narcotic analgesics need to be simplified.

Keywords: Pain, Neoplasms, Patients, Comprehension, Cancer Patients

Figures and Tables

Table 1
General Characteristics of Patients (N =90)
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*Multiple choices.

Table 2
General Characteristics of Oncology Nurses (N =90)
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Table 3
Comparisons of Pain Intensity Between Patient and Nursing Record (N =180)
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G=group; T=time; G*t=group*time.

Table 4
Comparisons of Pain Control between Patients and Nursing Record (N =180)
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G=group; T=time; G*T=group*time.

Table 5
Comparison of Pain Control Barriers between Patients and Nurses (N =180)
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Notes

This article is a condensed form of the first author's master's thesis from Chonnam National University.

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