Clinical Outcomes of Short-period Training of Cancer Pain Management on the Medical Staff

Objective To explore the influence of short-period cancer pain management training to the medical staff on the patients' pain status and quality of life(QOL),and to provide evidences to improve the approaches on cancer pain management.Methods Total 138 doctors and nurses of a rehabilitation unit were trained on cancer pain management for one week.Population sampling method was used for selecting participants.Both group A and group B consisted of 95 patients.Group A was selected before training,while group B was selected after training.The patients' pain status and QOL during different time were investigated.Results The pain status of group B was significantly improved compared with that of group A.Compared with group A,5 aspects of QOL of group B such as role functioning,emotional functioning,global health,pain and insomnia were improved significantly 2 and 4 weeks after admission(P0.01).Conclusion Short-period training to the medical staff with cancer pain management can help to alleviate the pain of patients and to improve many aspects of QOL.