NCT01313234

Educational Intervention Targeting Nurses Attitudes and Knowledge About Cancer-related Pain Management

A Theory Based Educational Intervention Targeting Nurses Attitudes and Knowledge Concerning Cancer-related Pain Management: A Study Protocol of a Quasi-experimental Study Design

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Blekinge Institute of Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether an intervention consisting of the implementation of guidelines about daily systematic pain assessment following a theory based education, targeting cancer-related pain and pain treatment, lead to a significantly positive improvement in RNs knowledge of, and attitudes towards their pain management. Furthermore will the interventions targeting the RNs influence the admitted patient's perception of their cancer-related pain?

Conditions

• Neoplasms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Education	Theory based education and systematic daily assessment

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-04-01
• Primary completion: 2011-06-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2011-03-11
• Last updated: 2013-01-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden