African American Young Adults' Pain and Pain Reduction Strategies.

Autor: Eze B; School of Nursing, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut., McDonald DD; School of Nursing, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. Electronic address: deborah.mcdonald@uconn.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses [Pain Manag Nurs] 2020 Oct; Vol. 21 (5), pp. 423-427. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jun 24.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmn.2020.05.004
Abstrakt: Background: Effective acute pain management strategies are important for young adults in order to reduce risk for transition to chronic pain.
Aim: To describe pain and pain self-management strategies used by African American young adults.
Design & Setting: A national online cross-sectional survey design was used.
Participant/subjects: Ninety-four African Americans Qualtrics panelists ages 18-25 who reported previous experience with acute pain responded. Methods: Respondents completed the Brief Pain Inventory Short Form to describe their pain intensity, pain interference with function, pain self-management, and percent of relief obtained from their self-management.
Results: African American young adults reported pain primarily in the back (n = 22, 23.4%) and head (n = 19, 20.2%), with moderate pain intensity M = 4.5 (standard deviation [SD] = 1.79) and pain interference with function M = 4.6 (SD = 2.36). African American young adults described their worst pain in the last 24 hours as M = 5.7 (SD = 2.01), least pain as M = 3.4 (SD = 2.41), and average pain as M = 5.1 (SD = 2.09). They reported 61.3% pain relief from self-treatment. A total of 45 (47.9%) reported no pain self-management strategies.
Conclusions: African American young adults report moderate levels of pain intensity and pain interference with function. A significant number report no pain self-management strategies. Focused pain assessment and education about efficacious pain self-management strategies, both pharmacological and complementary, could assist young African Americans to reduce their pain and risk of chronic pain in the future.
(Copyright © 2020 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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