Pain coping, multidisciplinary care, and mHealth: Patients' views on managing advanced cancer pain.
Sara M DeForgeKyla SmithKris-Ann AndersonAshton R BaltazarMeghan BeckAndrea C EnzingerJames A TulskyMatthew AllsopRobert R EdwardsKristin L SchreiberDesiree R AzizoddinPublished in: Psycho-oncology (2024)
Integrated pharmacological and psycho-behavioral pain treatments were important to participants. This underscores a need to coordinate complimentary approaches when developing cancer pain management interventions. Participant feedback suggests that an mHealth intervention that integrates pain treatments may have the capacity to increase advanced cancer patients' access to destigmatizing, accessible care while improving pain self-management.
Keyphrases
- pain management
- chronic pain
- palliative care
- neuropathic pain
- advanced cancer
- end stage renal disease
- healthcare
- randomized controlled trial
- chronic kidney disease
- squamous cell carcinoma
- ejection fraction
- depressive symptoms
- postoperative pain
- papillary thyroid
- spinal cord
- young adults
- patient reported
- health insurance
- affordable care act