Complementary and Alternative Methods to Treat Cancer Pain
Identifying a Researchable Problem
Summary of the Area of Interest
Pain is an agonizing symptom array of people diagnosed with cancer encounter from the day and minute of identification. Cancer pain furthers to anxiety, lack of appetite, depression and diminished patients’ quality of life and support system. The overseeing and controlling of patients’ pain promptly is the aim of palliative care. To control cancer pain and having the patients’ pain at steady state is challenging. The purpose of this paper is to examine the incidence of cancer pain and the impact on nursing care practice.
Problem
Cancer is the second most prevalent cause of demises in the United States, and approximately …show more content…
(Polit & Beck, 2017). The five questions generated are:
1. What is the prevalence of uncontrolled pain for cancer patients and what type of cancer pain is the most significant?
2. What are the factors that lead to higher rates of uncontrolled pain in cancer patients?
3. What is the standard method for treating cancer pain?
4. How can the medical profession better control pain in cancer patients?
5. Does complementary and alternative medicine improve pain for cancer patients compared to standard pain approaches?
According to Polit and Beck (2017), “background questions are general, foundational questions about a clinical issue” (p. 33). The above five questions formulated for consideration to answer the PICOT questions are realistic and capable of evidence-based resources exploration. Description of each PICOT variable and the PICOT …show more content…
With medical innovation and advance research related to evidence-based practice, it is imperative that health care professionals foster these transformations for a quality patient care (Polit & Beck, 2017). The abbreviation PICOT helps with the arrangement of suitable and researchable question related to evidence-based practice surrounding specific problem (Polit & Beck, 2017). The preliminary PICO question: In cancer patients experiencing pain, does the utilization of complementary and alternative medicine approaches compared to standard pain approaches result in same or better pain control.
(P) The population of interest, patients with cancer experiencing pain.
(I) Intervention or issue, the use of complementary and alternative methods to treat patients that are having pain. (C) The comparison of interest; does standard pain approaches to treating pain compared to complementary and alternative medicine?
(O) The outcome, does complementary and alternative medicine result in same or better pain control than the standard pain approaches?
(T) Time, a time frame was not utilized in the PICOT question.
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Identifying a Researchable Problem
Summary of the Area of Interest
Pain is an agonizing symptom array of people diagnosed with cancer encounter from the day and minute of identification. Cancer pain furthers to anxiety, lack of appetite, depression and diminished patients’ quality of life and support system. The overseeing and controlling of patients’ pain promptly is the aim of palliative care. To control cancer pain and having the patients’ pain at steady state is challenging. The purpose of this paper is to examine the incidence of cancer pain and the impact on nursing care practice.
Problem
Cancer is the second most prevalent cause of demises in the United States, and approximately …show more content…
(Polit & Beck, 2017). The five questions generated are:
1. What is the prevalence of uncontrolled pain for cancer patients and what type of cancer pain is the most significant?
2. What are the factors that lead to higher rates of uncontrolled pain in cancer patients?
3. What is the standard method for treating cancer pain?
4. How can the medical profession better control pain in cancer patients?
5. Does complementary and alternative medicine improve pain for cancer patients compared to standard pain approaches?
According to Polit and Beck (2017), “background questions are general, foundational questions about a clinical issue” (p. 33). The above five questions formulated for consideration to answer the PICOT questions are realistic and capable of evidence-based resources exploration. Description of each PICOT variable and the PICOT …show more content…
With medical innovation and advance research related to evidence-based practice, it is imperative that health care professionals foster these transformations for a quality patient care (Polit & Beck, 2017). The abbreviation PICOT helps with the arrangement of suitable and researchable question related to evidence-based practice surrounding specific problem (Polit & Beck, 2017). The preliminary PICO question: In cancer patients experiencing pain, does the utilization of complementary and alternative medicine approaches compared to standard pain approaches result in same or better pain control.
(P) The population of interest, patients with cancer experiencing pain.
(I) Intervention or issue, the use of complementary and alternative methods to treat patients that are having pain. (C) The comparison of interest; does standard pain approaches to treating pain compared to complementary and alternative medicine?
(O) The outcome, does complementary and alternative medicine result in same or better pain control than the standard pain approaches?
(T) Time, a time frame was not utilized in the PICOT question.
Ten Keywords for Literature Search and