Educational Intervention Targeting Nurses Attitudes and Knowledge About Cancer-related Pain Management

Blekinge Institute of Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neoplasms

Treatments: Behavioral: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01313234

BFR20100046019

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether an intervention consisting of the implementation of guidelines about daily systematic pain assessment following a theory based education, targeting cancer-related pain and pain treatment, lead to a significantly positive improvement in RNs knowledge of, and attitudes towards their pain management. Furthermore will the interventions targeting the RNs influence the admitted patient's perception of their cancer-related pain?

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Cancer diagnosis
• Aged 18 years and above
• Cognitively intact and able to verbally communicate
• At admission pain intensity >1 on Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)

Exclusion criteria

• Trauma or planned and/or acute surgery.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Education

Experimental group

Description:

Educational theory based intervention and systematic daily pain assessment

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group with care as usual