Enhancing Knowledge and Attitudes in Pain Management: A Pain Management Education Program for Nursing Home Staff |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Nursing Clinical Practice and Research Unit, Nursing Department, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia;2. Deakin University, Faculty of Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Burwood, Victoria, Australia;3. Deakin University and Alfred-Deakin Centre for Nursing Research, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;4. Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia;1. Faculty of Health Disciplines, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada;2. Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;3. Faculty of Kinesiology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada;1. School of Nursing, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG43, Legon, Ghana;2. School of Nursing, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa;1. St. Lawrence College, School of Baccalaureate Nursing, Kingston, Ontario, Canada;2. School of Nursing, Queen''s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada;3. Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Queen''s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
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| Abstract: | The aim of the study was to examine the effectiveness of a pain management program (PMP) in enhancing the knowledge and attitudes of health care workers in pain management. Many nursing home residents suffer from pain, and treatment of pain is often inadequate. Failure of health care workers to assess pain and their insufficient knowledge of pain management are barriers to adequate treatment. It was a quasiexperimental pretest and posttest study. Four nursing homes were approached, and 88 staff joined the 8-week PMP. Demographics and the knowledge and attitudes regarding pain were collected with the use of the Nurse’s Knowledge and Attitudes Survey Regarding Pain–Chinese version (NKASRP-C) before and after the PMP. A deficit in knowledge and attitudes related to pain management was prominent before the PMP, and there was a significant increase in pain knowledge and attitudes from 7.9 ± SD 3.52 to 19.2 ± SD4.4 (p < .05) after the 8-week PMP. A PMP can improve the knowledge and attitudes of nursing staff and enable them to provide adequate and appropriate care to older persons in pain. PMPs for nurses and all health care professionals are important in enhancing care for older adults and to inform policy on the provision of pain management. |
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