PATIENT AND PUBLIC EDUCATION IN CANCER PAIN MANAGEMENT

这个创新项目的总体目标是改善患者和 关于癌症疼痛管理的公共教育。 这一目标将 通过由国家认可的 疼痛管理和患者教育领域的专家。 的 要实现的具体目标包括：1）提供最先进的 关于对竞争性选择的工作人员进行癌症疼痛教育的信息 从医院，门诊护理，医生办公室，临终关怀，家庭护理 环境和消费者群体; 2）提供一个框架， 在这些环境中进行患者和公众疼痛教育; 3）提供 课程参与者网络分享疼痛教育项目; 4） 扩大当前癌症疼痛管理知识的应用 病人教育的方法，包括个别指导，小组 教育、公共教育和电话教育; 5）评估 培训计划对知识和经验的影响 参与者所在环境中的患者和家庭护理人员， 实施个人目标以改善疼痛管理。这 该课程建立在城市调查人员的广泛研究基础上 希望国家医疗中心（COH），并遵循一个试点项目， 1-为期一天的课程，包括来自加州机构的73名参与者。 这 创新的疼痛教育计划解决了三个主要障碍之一 改善癌症疼痛管理，患者教育领域， 卫生保健政策和研究机构（AHCPR） 癌症疼痛临床实践指南。 基于理论 病人教育的框架，该计划包括一个强有力的评估 包括评估知识和态度的工具 专业同事和参与者，参与者目标，障碍 改善疼痛管理、病程评估和患者使用， 家庭痛苦问卷 这将影响120个医疗保健 改善癌症疼痛管理和生活质量的环境 患者，并建立国家疼痛教育计划模型 传播。

The overall aim of this innovative project is to improve patient and public education regarding cancer pain management. This objective will be achieved through 3 workshops conducted by nationally recognized experts in the area of pain management and patient education. The specific aims to be accomplished include: 1) provide state-of-the-art information about cancer pain education to competitively selected staff from hospitals, ambulatory care, physicians offices, hospices, home care settings, and consumer groups; 2) provide a framework for integrating patient and public pain education in these settings; 3) provide a network of course participants to share pain education projects; 4) expand the application of current knowledge about cancer pain management to methods of patient education including individual instruction, group education, public education, and telephone education; and 5) evaluate the impact of the training program on the knowledge and experience of patients and family caregivers in the participants' settings and implementation of individual goals for improved pain management. This course builds upon the extensive research by investigators from the City of Hope National Medical Center (COH) and follows a pilot project of a 1-day course including 73 participants from California agencies. This innovative pain education program addresses one of three major barriers to improved cancer pain management, the area of patient education, as identified by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) Cancer Pain Clinical Practice Guidelines. Based on a theoretical framework of patient education, the program includes a strong evaluation component including instruments to assess knowledge and attitudes of professional colleagues and participants, participants goals, barriers to improving pain management, course evaluations and use of patient and family pain questionnaires. This course will impact 120 healthcare settings to improve pain management and quality of life in cancer patients and to establish model pain education programs for national dissemination.