Pain is prevalent for large numbers of patients with metastatic cancer, and this pain is often due to bone metastases. Despite the availability of effective pain treatments and various pain management guidelines, multiple studies document the undertreatment of pain in patients with cancer. The most frequently identified barriers to appropriate pain management are physician underestimation of th...

BACKGROUND Validated clinician outcome scores are considered less associated with psychosocial factors than patient-reported outcome measurements (PROMs). This belief may lead to misconceptions if both instruments are related to similar factors. QUESTIONS We asked: In patients with chronic shoulder pain, what biopsychosocial factors are associated (1) with PROMs, and (2) with clinician-rated ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the pain experience of outpatients with cancer and explore the relationships with sleep disturbance, depression, and patient functioning. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional study. SETTING Outpatient clinics at a large comprehensive cancer center in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE 85 patients with a pain intensity level of at least 3. METHODS Second...

Aim: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders and associated pain among intensive care nurses are important, as these factors may be related to presenteeism work engagement. The aim of this study was investigate the potential association with engagement nurses. 
 Material Method: This descriptive carried out members Turkish Society Critical Care Nurses. All participants completed a questionn...

background: breast cancer is the most common malignancy among iranian women and is a significant stressor in women’s life that may affect their coping strategies and quality of life. this study aimed to investigate coping strategies, quality of life and pain of women with breast cancer. materials and methods: this was a cross‑sectional study which held in seyed‑al shohada hospital and two priva...

Pain acceptance has been associated with improved physical and psychosocial well-being in chronic non-malignant pain patients. However, its effects are unclear in cancer outpatients with pain. Our aim was to determine whether pain acceptance predicts reduced pain, pain interference with function, anxiety, and depression in cancer outpatients. We recruited 116 outpatients from a tertiary oncolog...

CONTEXT Pain is a common complaint in oncology patients, and success in its treatment requires accurate assessment. Thus, assessment tools that are practical, culturally sensitive, and psychometrically sound are needed. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties and cultural sensitivity of the Arabic Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) in a Lebanese sample of canc...

BACKGROUND The Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) is a widely used symptomatic distress questionnaire. A translated version of the SCL-90-R has been applied in Ukrainian general population surveys several times but has not yet been validated in this country. The SCL-90-R and its short versions (BSI-53, SCL-27, BSI-18, SCL-14 and SCL-9-K) were investigated in order to comparatively assess t...