title: Therapeutic Education in Improving Cancer Pain Management: A Synthesis of Available Studies.
abstract: This literature review aims to synthesize available studies and to update findings in order to obtain a current, comprehensive estimate of the benefits of pain education. Forty-four original articles obtained from the PubMed database were analyzed to investigate which protocols could be most effective in improving pain management. Recent studies indicate a growing interest in evaluating patients' skills and attitudes; these include satisfaction with cancer pain treatment, patient-reported improvement, and patient participation-all of which could be dependable benchmarks for evaluating the effectiveness of educational programs. Besides pain measurement, recent studies advance support for the importance of assessing newly developed outcome criteria. In this sense, patients' active participation and decision making in their pain management are probably the most relevant goals of pain education.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U1086, Cancers et Préventions and Université de Caen Basse-Normandie EA 3936, Caen, France Centre Régional de Lutte Contre le Cancer François Baclesse, Caen, France virginie.prevost@unicaen.fr.
authors.forename: Virginie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Prevost
authors.affiliation: Centre Régional de Lutte Contre le Cancer François Baclesse, Caen, France Centre d'Etude et de Traitement de la Douleur et Réseau Régional Douleur en Basse-Normandie, Bayeux, France.
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Delorme
authors.affiliation: Centre Régional de Lutte Contre le Cancer François Baclesse, Caen, France.
authors.forename: Marie-Christine
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Grach
authors.affiliation: Centre Régional de Lutte Contre le Cancer Léon Bérard, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Gisèle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chvetzoff
authors.affiliation: Centre Régional de Lutte Contre le Cancer Léon Bérard, Lyon, France Direction de la Recherche Clinique et de l'Innovation, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Magalie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hureau
mesh_terms: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000072716:Cancer Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D010358:Patient Participation; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life
chemical_list: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid
keywords: cancer; pain assessment; pain management; patient education