MINNESOTA CANCER PAIN PROJECT (MCPP)

提议的明尼苏达州癌症疼痛项目(MCPP)是一个多学科的 和多机构方法来测试以下教育战略 改善明尼苏达州的癌症疼痛管理。多面性的 教育干预(MFEI)针对的是卫生保健 专业人员(HCP)、神职人员、癌症疼痛患者和他们 家庭，以及普通人。这个为期两年的示范项目将 解决导致癌症缓解不充分的障碍 遍及全国的痛苦。这些障碍是不充分的知识， 癌症患者的错误态度和无效的止痛行为 患者、他们的家人、公众和HCP。 MCPP使用经典的实验来评估结果效果 干预前后对照实验设计 社区。这些社区是明尼苏达州的四对配对城市 随机分配到干预点或控制点。结果的衡量 将通过正式的调查抽样技术对HCPs、癌症 患者及其家属和随机抽样的8名公众 明尼苏达州的社区。 这个示范项目的总体目标是减轻癌症疼痛。 主要假设是以社区为基础的、多学科的、 长期的、综合的多元教育战略将改变 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MCPP完成后， 有效的教育干预将扩展到四个对照 社区，将形成全州范围的教育战略，并 关于癌症疼痛的预期数据库将可用 患病率、严重性、疼痛缓解和癌症疼痛管理知识， 被研究人群的态度和行为。 明尼苏达州癌症疼痛倡议将在#年执行这一项目 与明尼苏达州多家机构合作。结果是 将通过在明尼苏达州举行的一次会议传播 在项目结束时、其他国家会议和在 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.