Nurse-Administered Auricular Point Acupressure for Cancer-Related Pain.

Barb Van de CastleNada LukkahataiBsn Lynn BillingXinran HuangHulin WuJingyu ZhangSalahadin AbdiJun KameokaThomas J Smith

Published in: Integrative cancer therapies (2023)

It is feasible to provide 8-hour training to oncology nurses for mastering APA skill and then integrating APA into their daily nursing care for patients with CRP. Based on the promising findings (decreased pain, improved fatigue and sleep disturbance, and less opioid use), the next step is to conduct a randomized clinical trial with a larger sample to confirm the efficacy of APA for oncology nurses to treat CRP in real-world practice.ClinicalTrial.gov identifier number: NCT04040140.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
healthcare
pain management
primary care
palliative care
mental health
neuropathic pain
physical activity
sleep quality
blood pressure
spinal cord injury