The Effect of Family Nursing Conversations as an Add-on to Multidisciplinary Treatment in Patients with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain: A Quasi-Experimental Trial

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Introduction: Chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) is a lifelong condition with radical consequences, calling for management involving patients’ families. Interventions based on the family systems nursing framework by Wright and Leahey have proved beneficial in other populations but require investigation in a CNCP population. This trial assumed that family nursing conversations (FNCs) based on the family systems nursing framework would increase patients’ and family members’ self-efficacy concerning CNCP management. Objective: To investigate whether an intervention with FNCs as an add-on to the usual multidisciplinary treatment of CNCP would have an effect on patients’ and family members’ self-efficacy. Additionally, to investigate any impact on family function, health-related quality of life, anxiety, and depression. Methods: The trial applied a prospective non-blinded quasi-experimental design with two comparable groups of patients and family members: a historical control group (HCG) and an intervention group (IG). The intervention was executed by nurses employed at a multidisciplinary pain center in the Capital Region of Denmark. HCG data were collected before the nurses’ intervention training. The primary outcome was self-efficacy. Secondary outcomes were family function, health-related quality of life, anxiety, and depression. Results: In total, 58 patients and 85 family members were included. The primary outcome, self-efficacy, detected no statistically significant between-group differences in mean change for patients, p =.990, or family members, p =.765. A statistically significant effect in favor of the IG was found in between-group differences in mean change in patients’ behavioral family function, p =.034, and anxiety, p =.031. No statistically significant between-group differences were detected in family members’ secondary outcomes. Conclusion: The intervention had no effect on patients’ or family members’ self-efficacy but a positive effect on patients’ behavioral family function and anxiety. The intervention was deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, any results should be interpreted with caution.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftSAGE Open Nursing
Vol/bind10
Antal sider18
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2024

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The authors wish to express the most profound gratitude to all of the patients and family members who took the time to participate in the trial. The authors also thank the MPC, the CRPS Clinic, and the Department of Anaesthesia, Pain, and Respiratory Support for hosting and supporting the FANCOC-PAIN study. The authors are very grateful for the continuous help to complete the trial despite the exceptional circumstances that characterized the period. The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The FANCOC-PAIN study received funding from the Dagmar Marshalls Foundation [J. nr. 500020], the Danish Nurses Organization, the Danish Nurses Organizations Nursing Research Foundation, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation [NNF21OC0072540].

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