作者: Janet M. Edrington , Steven Paul , Marylin Dodd , Claudia West , Noreen Facione
DOI: 10.1016/J.JPAINSYMMAN.2003.12.013
关键词: Physical therapy 、 Cancer 、 Cancer pain 、 Internal medicine 、 Medical prescription 、 Medicine 、 Sexual dimorphism 、 Analgesic 、 Severity of illness 、 Bone metastasis 、 Chronic pain 、 Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine 、 General Nursing 、 Clinical neurology
摘要: While chronic pain is experienced by approximately 50-90% of patients with metastatic cancer, little known about sex differences in cancer pain. Therefore, the purposes this study, a sample oncology outpatients (n=187) who were experiencing from bone metastasis, were: 1) to determine if there various characteristics, including intensity, and 2) prescription consumption analgesic medications. No significant found any baseline characteristics. In addition, no prescriptions or intake Of note, men reported significantly higher interference scores for sexual activity than women. The study findings are important because they suggest that, unlike acute pain, may not influence patients' perceptions responses