[Cancer pain: Coping and communication.].

Der Schmerz
H Seemann

Abstract

Anxieties and emotional disturbances associated with cancer often cause pain therapy to be unsuccessful. When psychological support is required it is mostly aimed at supporting cancer patients in attempts to cope with their disease so as to improve the efficiency of pain therapy. In our study we focused on the barriers to cancer pain management that lie in patient's beliefs about pain and their coping behavior. A pilot study was designed to examine the subjective experience of pain and coping strategies. In a sample of 146 cancer outpatients with pain we found moderate pain intensity levels and good physical conditions (Karnofsky), but an extensive impact on mood and vegetative symptoms associated with "constant or daily pain" and/or attribution of pain to cancer. Coping was characterized by stoicism, "being brave", comparison with others and self-encouragement, but seldom by communication, requests for help or such strategies as distraction, enjoyment and relaxation. Only one third of the pain patients communicated their pain. Women and the patients who had higher pain intensity levels were more likely to suffer in silence, but those who communicated had better acceptance levels of pain intensity than those who did not. In a s...Continue Reading

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