Category 1. Cancer pain management by the nursing team |
Article |
Year |
Type of study |
Objective |
Conclusion |
Palliative care: pain evaluation according to nurses |
2015 |
Integrative literature review |
Identify in Brazilian scientific production the status of nursing team assistance and knowledge of cancer pain. |
Results have contributed for the scientific armamenta-rium of the nursing team, giving it support for better pain management with regard to its adequate measurement, major intervention aspects and predominant stumbling blocks for fighting against pain. |
Postoperative management of cancer pain patients by nurses |
2010 |
Convergent assistential qualitative research |
Reveal concepts and contributions of nurses acting in palliative care about cancer patients’ pain evaluation |
Implementation of systematized pain management entailed in nursing assistance systematization enables redirecting actions and this way a more complete and effective pain management. |
Nurses and cancer pain |
2013 |
Descriptive qualitative study |
Describe the management of immediate postoperative pain of cancer patients by the nursing team |
Nursing team should be prepared to manage postoperative pain of cancer patients, with the use of available tools and identification of pharmacological and complementary interventions needed for each patient. |
Spiritual dimension in pain and suffering control of advanced cancer patients. |
2015 |
Case report |
Show the integration of spiritual aspects in pain sensation manifestation and their influence on pain and suffering control of advanced cancer patient. |
Importance of recognizing the spiritual dimension in adequate total pain evaluation |
Dialogues with nurses about oncologic pain assessment of patients under palliative care |
2010 |
Experience re-port |
Report the experience of developing a labor education process focused on the awareness of nurses about pain evaluation of patients under palliative care |
Nurses stress the need to build pain evaluation systematization so that nurses may reinforce the importance of its control, and justify practice and ongoing education. |
Category 2. Pharmacological methods for the management of cancer pain by the nursing team |
Irruptive pain in advanced cancer |
2011 |
Literature review |
Systematize pain concepts and definitions as-sociated to cancer, understand onset mechanisms of irruptive pain and know the best ways to relieve it. |
Severe non-relieved pain brings adverse physical, psychological and social consequences. Patients have the right to adequate treatment. |
Avaliação da dor em pacientes oncológicos inter-nados em um hospital es-cola do Nordeste do Brasil. |
2013 |
Prospective, crossover study |
Describe cancer patients’ pain evaluation and treatment in Clinical Oncology Ward. |
Non-treatment of pain by “fear of adverse reactions” or by negligence leads to serious violation of bioethical principles. Most common pain was nociceptive visceral pain, and neuropathic pain was the most difficult to control. There has been adequate pain control in patients admit-ted to the cancer ward. |
Pain evaluation in cancer patients admitted to a teaching hospital of Northeastern Brazil Pain in cancer patients under chemotherapeutic treatment |
2012 |
Quantitative, de script ive, crossover study |
Evaluate cancer patients pain by means of standardized scales validated to the Portuguese language |
Moderate and sensory pain is present in most cancer patients leading to loss of energy to perform daily activities. |
Category 3. Non-pharmacological methods to manage cancer pain |
Massage in children with cancer: effectiveness of a protocol |
2013 |
Prospective, longitudinal, randomized, controlled study |
Evaluate the efficacy of the implementation of a massage protocol to relieve pain of hospitalized children with cancer. |
Massage seems to be a useful intervention to relieve pain in children with cancer, in spite of questions about the efficacy of this protocol. Authors recommend its use due to its contribution to children’s wellbeing and quality of life. |
Effect of therapeutic massage on mental health of cancer patients |
2015 |
Systematic literature review |
Evaluate the effect of therapeutic massage on mental health of cancer patients |
Therapeutic massage has short-term beneficial effects in terms of emotional wellbeing, physical and emotional discomfort, depressed mood, sleep pattern, relaxation and stress of cancer patients. |
Complementary techniques to control cancer symptoms |
2014 |
Literature review |
Identify evidences in the scientific literature for the use of complementary techniques to control signs and symptoms of cancer patients. |
Scientific evidences show the benefit of nonpharmacological treatment to control signs and symptoms such as pain in oncology. |
Non-pharmacological methods to control pediatric cancer pain: view of the nursing team |
2015 |
Descriptive, exloratory qualiquantitative study |
Identify non-pharmacological methods to control pain used by nurses in hospitalized children, check most widely used pain scales and evaluate nursing team view about pain management with nonpharmacological methods. |
The need for training on pain measurement scales according to age, possible non-pharmacological methods used by nurses and their association with the nursing process has been identified. |
Pain in cancer patients under palliative care |
2014 |
Crossover study |
Evaluate pain and quality of life of cancer patients under palliative care. |
Results have shown the presence of pain affecting quality of life and impairing daily life activities. |
Interventionist procedures for cancer pain management. |
2012 |
Quantitative, de script ive, crossover study |
Describe the number and types of procedures performed by the Pain Interventionist Medicine Center of a private hospital of São Paulo. |
Results are in line with the literature and confirm the efficacy of interventionist procedures for different types of cancer pain. |