| Summary: | 碩士 === 台北醫學院 === 護理學研究所 === 89 === Abstract
Title of Thesis: Effects of A Pain Educational Program on Improving the Pain Management of Cancer Pain for Home Care Cancer Patients
Institution: Graduate Institution of Nursing, Taipei Medical University
Author: Min-Chuan Chang.
Thesis directed by: Chia-Chin Lin, Ph.D., Professor
The purpose of this study to study whether the pain educational program could reduce the barriers to taking analgesics, improve the medication compliance, decrease the degree of pain and lower the impacts on daily life in home care cancer patients. The sample was recruited from a cancer center and who had been diagnosed as cancer and had been taking pain medications continually after discharge.
The Barriers Questionnaire—Taiwan Form (BQT), Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form (BPI) and compliance Self-report assessment tool were used in this study. Total of 37 patients were recruited by convenience sampling, including experimental group of 18 and control group of 19. Data were analyzed by descriptive, t-test and paired t-test.
The results indicated that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test on the barrier to taking medicine for the experimental group. There is no difference for control group in this part.
There was a difference between control group and experimental group on the barrier of taking medicine, except for “good patient” item.
Experimental group had increased the number of correct rate from 22％ to 72％after pain education. The control group had no change, remained 16％.
The degree of pain was reduced after the pain educational program for the experimental group, but there was no difference for the control group.
Furthermore, there was a significant difference on pain interference for experimental group and the t-tests showed no difference for both groups. In conclusion, the pain educational program improved the knowledge, reduced the level of pain and improved medication compliance.
Pain educational program could be a valuable nursing strategy for improving the Quality of cancer pain management.
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