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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother
; 21(3): 49-55, 2007.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18032357
ABSTRACT
The authors performed an electronic search of websites that address psychosocial issues in pain management identified over 5 million sites. A search limited to pychosocial issue sin pain produced nearly 400,000. Nine scientific, professional and consumer-oriented websites were selected for review of social support information and opportunities using criteria focusing on patient information, referrals for counseling services and community-based assistance programs, self-help groups, specific pain syndromes, and readability and interpretability of consumer-oriented content. The internet can empower patients to self-manage their pain and seek out effective social support venues for improving their lives.