Effects of a nursing pain programme on patient outcomes

✍ Scribed by Anneke L. Francke; Bert Garssen; J. Bart Luiken; Andrea M. E. De Schepper; Mieke Grypdonck; Huda Huijer Abu-Saad

• Book ID: 101295217
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 83 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1057-9249
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1611(199712)6:4<302::aid-pon284>3.0.co;2-d

✦ Synopsis

The effectiveness of a continuing pain education program, directed to surgical cancer nurses, was investigated in a pretest posttest controlled intervention study. ANCOVA for repeated measures revealed that the programme resulted in a lower pain intensity of surgical colon and breast cancer patients (p = 0.02). However, no effects were found on pain duration, sleepless hours as a result of pain, state anxiety, mood disturbances, and duration of hospitalization. It is assumed that because the pain CE programme had a moderate impact on pain intensity, this had no consequences for the other outcome variables mentioned.