Cancer pain
Conditions
Interventions
Nurses conduct 3 times of individual sessions to an outpatient with cancer pain, and promoting self-management of cancer pain in outpatients.
Nurses provides the usual outpatient care.
Sponsors
Tenri Health Care University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Outpatients who meet criteria below ; outpatients aged 20 and over ; have a received diagnosis and a notice of cancer ; a patient's presumed life expectancy is six months or more ; have cancer pain which continues one week or more ; have cancer pain more than 3 (NRS 0-10) ; have opioid analgesics prescribed ; are 0-3 performance status (PS) ; can read and write Japanese ; are an intention which participates in the complete of a nursing intervention program ; can give informed consent.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Outpatients who meet criteria below ; are planning surgical medical treatment and a hospitalization within two months ; have only a pain by the side effects of a surgical operation, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy ; are having the psychiatric disorder diagnosed ; have remarkable cognitive dysfunction ; were hospitalized two weeks or more during the intervention.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Pain intensity after : NRS 0-10 Evaluation time is before, after the second intervention, and after the third intervention. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Influence on daily life with a pain: Brief pain inventory (short form) Japanese version (BPI-J) 2. QOL: 12 item Sort-form health survey (SF-12) Japanese version 3. Self-efficacy: Pain Self-Efficacy Quest1.ionnaire Japanese version (PSEQ-J) 4. Effective use of analgesics: BPI-J, NRS 0-10, Pain management Index (PMI) 5. Psychological: Hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) Japanese version | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactChiaki Komori
Tenri Health Care University Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Care
Outcome results
None listed