Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses
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Little is known regarding the effect of social participation (SP) and physical activity (PA) on pain outcomes among community-dwelling older adults in the United States. ⋯ Physical activity but not social participation may protect against development of new or worsening pain. More research is needed to determine whether social activity can be beneficial for pain prevention and management. Efforts to promote physical activity among older adults may reduce risk of new or worsening pain.
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Pediatric patients frequently present to emergency departments in pain. ⋯ Both medical emergency teams and parents administered prehospital analgesia insufficiently and without previous assessment. However, medical emergency teams used medications more often than parents. Analgesic therapy used in the emergency department resulted in significant pain reduction.
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Patients' pain beliefs are the main obstacle to effective pain management. Assessing and correcting negative perceptions is important for improving pain intensity and quality of life of patients with cancer pain. ⋯ Negative pain beliefs are common among oral cancer patients. This novel application of the self-regulatory model demonstrates that it can be used to capture the key pain beliefs (i.e., cognitions, emotions, and coping responses) of oral cancer patients within a single, unifying framework.
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Although past studies have found significant positive correlations of both pain severity and overall pain catastrophizing (PC) levels with depression in chronic pain samples, less is known about the extent to which specific PC dimensions (i.e., helplessness, magnification, rumination) explain links between pain severity and depression. ⋯ The helplessness dimension of PC, in particular, may help to explain why people with more severe chronic pain are prone to co-occurring depression.
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Pain experienced among individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD) is the primary requirement for hospitalization. ⋯ Culturally sensitive care, based on current practice guidelines, is needed for improved pain management care for patients with SCD.