The status of cancer pain and the usage of complementary and alternative medicine among gynecological cancer pain patients / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the status of cancer pain and the usage of complementary and alternative medicine among gynecological cancer pain patients.Methods Thirty-one patients with cancer pain were investigated with self-designed questionnaire in the Gynecology Department of the First Hospital of Lanzhou University.Results The average score of age was (51.23 ± 11.34) years old,the youngest patient was 23 years old.During the period of cancer,54.84％ (17/31) of the average degree of cancer pain was mild,77.42％ (24/31) of the most severe degree of cancer pain was severe,51.61％ (16/31) of the patients experienced two or more parts of the pain,75.47％ (40/53) of the cancer pain was pelvic pain,72.72％ (24/33) was dull pain.The higher the degree of cancer pain was,the worse the subjective sleep quality was.Merely 25.81％ (8/31) of the patients used complementary and alternative medicine methods to treatment cancer pain,6 cases of them considered that the methods were effective.Conclusions Patients with gynecological cancer became younger and younger,their cancer pain was severe and mostly was pelvic pain and dull pain.Patients' subjective sleep quality was affected by cancer pain.Complementary and alternative methods might mitigate cancer pain but their usage frequency was low,which was anticipated to be more used in clinic.