Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus, Turkey.
Nurse Educ Today. 2022 Apr;111:105314. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105314. Epub 2022 Feb 26.
It is essential for nurses to manage pain effectively. Nurses start to learn about pain while still students. Pain assessment is more effective with knowledge of pain, positive attitude, and empathy. Nurse educators should evaluate nursing students' knowledge and attitudes toward pain management and their relationship with empathy and should revise the curriculum accordingly. No published studies have been found to date where the relationship between nursing students' knowledge and attitudes toward pain and empathy has been investigated.
This aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting pain knowledge and attitudes of nursing students, and to evaluate the relationship between students level of empathy and pain knowledge and attitudes.
This study was a quantitative, descriptive-correlation design.
The study population was 150 students who were studying in the third and senior grades a nursing department in North Cyprus. The sample included 133 nursing students.
Data were collected with the 'Student Descriptive Information Form', 'Knowledge and Attitude about Pain' questionnaire, and the "Basic Empathy Scale" (BES). The data were evaluated with descriptive analysis, nonparametric tests, and correlation analysis by using SPSS 20.0 program.
Mean affective and cognitive empathy scores were 30.16 (SD = 4.42) and 29.29 (SD = 2.65), respectively, and the mean score obtained from the Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes Survey Regarding Pain was 13.50 (SD = 3.22). Furthermore, 91% of the participants stated that the patient is the most accurate judge of the intensity of pain, but only 1.5% of them responded correctly to questions on pharmacological methods of pain therapy. A weakly positive correlation was found between cognitive (r = 0.100, p = 0.252) and affective (r = 0.013, p = 0.881) empathy levels and pain knowledge and attitudes; nevertheless, this was not statistically significant (p > 0.05).
The study results indicate that curricula regarding pain management should improve the knowledge and attitudes of nursing students toward pain management. Seminars and practical training about how to use empathy in pain management should be planned and clinical practice should be scheduled more frequently.
有效管理疼痛对护士来说至关重要。护士在学生时期就开始学习疼痛知识。具备疼痛知识、积极的态度和同理心，能更有效地进行疼痛评估。护士教育者应评估护理学生对疼痛管理的知识和态度及其与同理心的关系，并相应地修改课程。迄今为止，尚未发现研究调查护理学生对疼痛的知识、态度和同理心之间的关系。
本研究旨在确定影响护理学生疼痛知识和态度的因素，并评估学生同理心水平与疼痛知识和态度之间的关系。
这是一项定量、描述性相关性设计研究。
研究人群为北塞浦路斯一所护理系三年级和四年级的 150 名学生。样本包括 133 名护理学生。
使用“学生描述性信息表”、“疼痛知识和态度问卷”和“基本同理心量表”（BES）收集数据。使用 SPSS 20.0 程序进行描述性分析、非参数检验和相关性分析。
情感和认知同理心的平均得分为 30.16（SD=4.42）和 29.29（SD=2.65），护士对疼痛的知识和态度调查的平均得分为 13.50（SD=3.22）。此外，91%的参与者表示患者是疼痛强度的最准确判断者，但只有 1.5%的参与者正确回答了疼痛药物治疗方法的问题。认知（r=0.100，p=0.252）和情感（r=0.013，p=0.881）同理心水平与疼痛知识和态度之间存在弱正相关，但无统计学意义（p>0.05）。
研究结果表明，疼痛管理课程应提高护理学生对疼痛管理的知识和态度。应计划关于如何在疼痛管理中运用同理心的研讨会和实践培训，并应更频繁地安排临床实践。
