MINNESOTA CANCER PAIN PROJECT (MCPP)

拟议的明尼苏达癌症疼痛项目（MCPP）是一个多学科的 和多机构方法来测试教育策略， 改善明尼苏达州的癌症疼痛管理。 多方面 教育干预（MFEIs）针对健康护理 专业人员（HCP），神职人员，癌症疼痛患者及其 家庭和公众。 这个为期两年的示范项目将 解决导致癌症缓解不足的障碍 整个国家的痛苦。 这些障碍是知识不足， 错误的态度和无效的癌症疼痛缓解行为 患者、患者家属、公众和HCP。 MCPP使用经典的实验方法评估结果效应 干预前/后对照和实验设计 社区. 这些社区是明尼苏达州四个配对的城市 随机分配至干预或对照部位。 衡量成果 将通过HCP的正式调查抽样技术， 病人，他们的家人和随机抽样的公众在八个 明尼苏达州社区 该示范项目的总体目标是减少癌症疼痛。 主要的假设是，以社区为基础的，多学科的， 长期的，综合的多种教育战略将改变 癌症患者及其家属的知识、态度和行为， 公众和HCP。 在为期两年的中期人口普查计划完成后， 有效的教育干预措施将扩大到四个控制区， 社区，将形成全州范围的教育战略， 前瞻性获得的关于癌痛的数据库将可用 患病率、严重程度、疼痛缓解和癌痛管理知识， 研究人群的态度和行为。 明尼苏达州癌症疼痛倡议将执行该项目， 与明尼苏达州多个机构合作。 结果 将通过在明尼苏达州举行的一次会议传播这项研究的结果。 在项目结束时，其他国家会议，并在 科学文献

The proposed Minnesota Cancer Pain Project (MCPP) is a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional approach to test educational strategies for improving cancer pain management in Minnesota. The multi-faceted educational interventions (MFEIs) are directed at health car professionals (HCPs), clergy, cancer patients with pain and their families, and the lay public. This two-year demonstration project will address the barriers which account for the inadequate relief of cancer pain throughout the nation. These barriers are inadequate knowledge, mistaken attitudes, and ineffective pain relieving behaviors in cancer patients, their families, the public and HCPs. The MCPP assesses outcome effect using the classic experimental before/after intervention design with control and experimental communities. The communities are four matched pairs of Minnesota cities randomized to intervention or control sites. Measurement of outcomes will be done by formal survey sampling techniques of HCPs, cancer patients, their families and random sampling of the public in the eight Minnesota communities. The overall goal of this demonstration project is to reduce cancer pain. The main hypothesis is that community-based, multi-disciplinary, long-term, and integrated multiple educational strategies will change the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in cancer patients, their families, the public and HCPs. Following completion of the two-year MCPP, the effective educational interventions will be extended to the four control communities, a statewide educational strategy will be formed, and a prospectively obtained data base will be available about cancer pain prevalence, severity, pain relief, and cancer pain management knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in the studied populations. The Minnesota Cancer Pain Initiative will execute this project in cooperation with multiple institutions throughout Minnesota. The results of the study will be disseminated through a conference held in Minnesota at the end of the project, other national conferences, and in the scientific literature.