Nonpharmacological Methods and Pain Measurement Tools Used by Nurses Working in Surgical Clinics for Postoperative Pain Management

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI:10.1111/jep.70236

Dilek Çeçen Çamlı

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Abstract

Objective

This study was conducted to determine the nonpharmacological methods and pain measurement tools used by nurses working in surgical clinics for postoperative pain management.

Materials and Methods

In this cross-sectional and descriptive study, n = 107 nurses working in the surgical clinics of a university hospital in western Turkey between March and June 2024 were included.

A ‘Questionnaire for Postoperative Pain Management’ consisting of 26 questions which was created by the researcher in line with the information in the relevant literature was used to determine the practices of nurses working in surgical clinics regarding pain management and the scales they use. Frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation values, Chi-Squared tests, t-tests, and ANOVA were used to analyze the data.

Results

It was determined that 49.1% of the participants were in the 18–29 age group, the mean age of all participants was 30.72 ± 6.79 years, and 67.3% of the participants had bachelor's or master's degrees. The participants had a mean professional experience of 9.75 ± 7.32 years, 56.1% of them did not educate their patients about pain relief methods in the preoperative period, 81.3% used scales during pain assessment, the most commonly used scale (61.9%) was the ‘Numerical Rating Scale,’ 63.6% used nonpharmacological pain relief or reduction methods, and the participants who received training on pain applied nonpharmacological methods more frequently than those who did not receive training. It was found that the participants who provided education to preoperative patients used scales more frequently during pain assessment than those who did not provide education to preoperative patients.

Conclusion

The results of this study showed that nurses who had more professional experience and those who received training on pain during their professional education and after their graduation had more knowledge and favorable practices regarding pain and the management of pain.

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外科诊所护士术后疼痛管理的非药物方法和疼痛测量工具

目的探讨外科护士在术后疼痛管理中使用的非药物方法和疼痛测量工具。材料和方法在这项横断面和描述性研究中，纳入了2024年3月至6月在土耳其西部一所大学医院外科诊所工作的n = 107名护士。“术后疼痛管理问卷”由26个问题组成，由研究人员根据相关文献中的信息创建，用于确定外科诊所护士在疼痛管理方面的做法及其使用的量表。使用频率、百分比、均值和标准差值、卡方检验、t检验和方差分析对数据进行分析。结果18-29岁年龄组占49.1%，平均年龄30.72±6.79岁，本科及硕士以上学历占67.3%。参与者的平均职业经验为9.75±7.32年，56.1%的参与者在术前未对患者进行疼痛缓解方法的教育，81.3%的参与者在疼痛评估中使用量表，最常用的量表（61.9%）是“数值评定量表”，63.6%的参与者使用非药物缓解或减轻疼痛的方法，接受过疼痛培训的参与者比未接受过培训的参与者更频繁地使用非药物方法。研究发现，术前教育患者的受试者在疼痛评估中使用量表的频率高于未教育患者的受试者。结论本研究结果表明，专业经验丰富的护士、在专业学习期间和毕业后接受过疼痛培训的护士对疼痛和疼痛管理有更多的认识和良好的做法。

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Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

4.20%

发文量

143

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.