Escuela de pacientes con dolor crónico no oncológico y tratamiento opioide

Abstract

Pain is one of the disorders that most affects and worries people and is the accompanying symptom that most often motivates medical consultation. The frequency of chronic pain in the spanish adult population is very high and constitutes a general publich health problem. The school of patients has demonstrated its effectiveness in the therapeutic approach of certain processes (arterial hypertension, mellitus diabetes and others). We present the first school of patients with nononologic chronic pain and opioid treatment implemented in the Public Health System of Andalusia, which has allowed training patients with opioids treatment for their pain processes with a very high satisfaction degree.