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Article: Chronic pain: nursing diagnosis or syndrome?(Statistical Data Included)
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- Nursing Diagnosis
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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PROBLEM. To explore the existence of a pattern of nursing diagnoses that represents a chronic pain syndrome.
METHODS. The nursing diagnoses of 68 oncologic and 46 nononcologic patients with chronic pain were submitted to univariate and multivariate analyses. Diagnoses ranked above the 75th percentile, without association with pain etiology, and presenting a pattern in cluster analyses and multidimensional scaling was accepted as possible components of chronic pain syndrome.
FINDINGS. The possible components of chronic pain syndrome were disturbed sleep pattern, (a) constipation or risk for constipation, deficient knowledge, (a) impaired physical ...