Abstract
Background
Previous studies show that pain is common among hospital inpatients.
Aim
This study measures the prevalence of pain and the impact of pain on sleep in patients
admitted to five hospitals in Sweden.
Methods
The patients were admitted to a surgical or a medical ward. They answered on a self-reported
questionnaire about their average pain intensity and how much their pain interfered
with their sleep the previous 24 hours, on a 010 numerical rating scale (NRS).
Results
Of the 500 patients, 308 experienced pain (62%), (NRS 3) and 111 (22%) rated their pain as NRS 7. We found no difference between surgical and medical specialty regarding pain prevalence.
The results suggest that roughly the same proportion of patients with pain also experienced
poor sleep due to pain265 patients (53%) reported pain interference on sleep, NRS
3.
Conclusions and Clinical Implications
This study shows that there is still an unacceptable high pain prevalence in inpatients
and that patients experience pain as negatively impacting their sleep. Future pain
care is likely to include a more comprehensive implementation strategy for the dissemination
of knowledge, especially related to the complex context of today’s healthcare system.
That is, the possibility that anchoring new knowledge also benefits the patient is
probably associated with optimization of the structural context. Future research should
take this question further by examining how the organizational structure should be
optimized for the dissemination of knowledge in healthcare professionals about pain
and pain interference with sleep.
Abbreviations:
NRS (numeric rating scale), NRS-P (NRS for pain as NRS-P), NRS-S (NRS for pain interference with sleep as NRS-S)To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: September 06, 2022
Accepted:
July 17,
2022
Received in revised form:
June 23,
2022
Received:
November 2,
2021
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