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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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Res Community Public Health Nurs. 2010;21(3):311-320
Publication date (electronic) : 2014 April 04
doi : https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2010.21.3.311
Soon-Ok Yang1, Seung-Hee Lee2
1Professor, Division of Nursing, Hallym University, Korea.
2Full-time Lecutrer, Department of Nursing, Catholic Sangji College, Korea.
Address reprint requests to: Lee, Seung-Hee, Department of Nursing, Catholic Sangji College, 393 Yulse-dong, Andong 760-711, Korea. Tel: 82-54-851-3265, Fax: 82-54-853-3260, woaiyoung@gmail.com
Received 2010 June 07; Revised 2010 September 16; Accepted 2010 September 16.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Nurses; Aged; Pain measurement; Nursing care

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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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