Pain from sickle-cell crisis.
A qualitative questionnaire survey was carried out to identify the perceptions and expectations of pain management of patients with sickle-cell disease, and of nurses. The study illustrates that the present sample of nurses contributed to the poor pain control of sickle-cell patients because of their misconceptions about narcotic addiction, inadequate formal pain assessment and their neglect of attention to the psychosocial implications of this chronic disease.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000451:nursing / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015995:Prevalence; D013338:Students, Nursing