Attitudes and Beliefs About Chronic Pain Among Nurses-Biomedical or Behavioral? A Cross-sectional Survey.

Indian Journal of Palliative Care
Venkatesan PremSenthil P Kumar

Abstract

Studies have documented that nurses and other health care professionals are inadequately prepared to care for patients in chronic pain. Several reasons have been identified including inadequacies in nursing education, absence of curriculum content related to pain management, and attitudes and beliefs related to chronic pain. The objective of this paper was to assess the chronic pain-related attitudes and beliefs among nursing professionals in order to evaluate the biomedical and behavioral dimensions of their perceptions on pain. Cross-sectional survey of 363 nurses in a multispecialty hospital. The study utilized a self-report questionnaire - pain attitudes and beliefs scale (PABS) - which had 31 items (statements about pain) for each of which the person had to indicate the level at which he or she agreed or disagreed with each statement. Factor 1 score indicated a biomedical dimension while factor 2 score indicated a behavioral dimension to pain. Comparisons across individual and professional variables for both dimensions were done using one-way ANOVA and correlations were done using the Karl-Pearson co-efficient using SPSS version 11.5 for Windows. The overall factor 1 score was 52.95 ± 10.23 and factor 2 score was 20.93 ± 4...Continue Reading

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Oct 25, 2012·Indian Journal of Palliative Care·Venkatesan PremSaroja Jaykumar
Sep 21, 2013·Indian Journal of Palliative Care·Senthil Paramasivam Kumar, Anup Kumar
Mar 5, 2020·Journal of Clinical Nursing·Wisdom Muleya MunkombweCarina Elgán

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