Improving Cancer Pain Management Using AHCPR Cancer Pain Guidelines
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 320
- 试验地点
- 2
研究概览
简要总结
Cancer pain is a pervasive problem for the person with cancer. Despite advances in knowledge, effective cancer management is infrequently achieved. While this problem is multi-factorial, the patient may have attitudinal barriers to effective pain management that can be ameliorated with novel interventions.
详细描述
Background:
Cancer pain is a pervasive problem for the person with cancer. Despite advances in knowledge, effective cancer management is infrequently achieved. While this problem is multi-factorial, the patient may have attitudinal barriers to effective pain management that can be ameliorated with novel interventions.
Objectives:
The primary objective of this study is to determine the effects of two nursing interventions on the improvement of pain management (PM), functional status (FS) and quality of life (QOL) in veterans receiving cancer care in VA ambulatory care clinics. The two interventions will utilize selected cancer pain management strategies developed as Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). This study will test the hypothesis that those veterans in the intervention arms will have lower pain intensity scores, greater pain relief and satisfaction with PM, and will have higher QOL and FS scores specifically in the areas of physical and social functioning. A secondary aim is to measure the extent that cancer PM is affected by the intervening variables of age, affect, attitudinal barriers, veteran culture, type/stage of disease, and type of cancer treatment.
Methods:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Factorial
- 盲法
- Single
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients must have a medical diagnosis of cancer, be experiencing pain as a result of their cancer or cancer treatment, be receiving treatment on an out-patient basis whereas they are taking their own medications, have a life expectancy of at least 6 months, have access to a telephone, are able to read and speak English, and do not have a drug abuse history.
排除标准
- 未提供