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A Survey on the Customized Visiting Nurse's Assessment and Management of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Older Adults
Soon-Ok Yang, Seung-Hee Lee
Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2010;21(3):311-320.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2010.21.3.311
Published online: April 4, 2014

1Professor, Division of Nursing, Hallym University, Korea.

2Full-time Lecutrer, Department of Nursing, Catholic Sangji College, Korea.

• Received: June 7, 2010   • Revised: September 16, 2010   • Accepted: September 16, 2010

© 2013 Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing

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  • Purpose
    The aim of this study was to investigate the status of visiting nurse's assessment and management of chronic musculoskeletal pain in older adults.
  • Methods
    The subjects of this study were 285 visiting nurses working at 24 public health centers located in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, and Gangwon-do. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire from June to July, 2008. The SPSS/WIN 13.0 program was used for data analysis.
  • Results
    Of the visiting nurses, 195 (77.4%) reported lack of pain education for nurses. The education of exercise (83.3%) was used most frequently by nurses as a pain intervention. Barriers to effective pain management were inadequate pain management guidelines and lack of pain education for nurses.
  • Conclusion
    It is necessary to develop evidence-based nursing interventions for pain management and to develop systematic educational programs for visiting nurses management of chronic musculoskeletal pain.
Table 1
General Characteristics of Subjects (N=252)
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Table 2
Characteristics of Pain of the Elderly Assessed by Customized Visiting Nurse (N=252)
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Table 3
Distribution of Use of Pain Assessment Tool and Pain Management Guideline (N=252)
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Table 4
Distribution and Rank of Approaches for Musculoskeletal Pain Relief (N=252)
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Table 5
Distribution and Rank of Reasons of Ineffective Pain Management (N=252)
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    A Survey on the Customized Visiting Nurse's Assessment and Management of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Older Adults
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    Table 1 General Characteristics of Subjects (N=252)

    Table 2 Characteristics of Pain of the Elderly Assessed by Customized Visiting Nurse (N=252)

    Table 3 Distribution of Use of Pain Assessment Tool and Pain Management Guideline (N=252)

    Table 4 Distribution and Rank of Approaches for Musculoskeletal Pain Relief (N=252)

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